Japanese Geisha Sayings

#1. We have to keep reminding ourselves that we have to stop, or we never will.

Jasinda Wilder

#2. Bravery doesn't forgive stupidity. Always think. Think what's possible.

J.K. Rowling

#3. Did you get checked out?" "Yeah, by a hot blond who sat in the corner of the bar and made googly eyes at me." "I meant by a doctor." "No, but a balding yet bizarrely hot paramedic said I'd be fine." "Oh, and he's an expert?" "At flirting.

Darynda Jones

#4. It's political, sir. Apparently he wants a return to the values and traditions that made the city great, sir."
"Does he _know_ what those values and traditions _were_?" said Vimes, aghast.

Terry Pratchett

#5. As far as fighting, I just love to fight and enjoy my life more because of that. I think that it is pretty apparent to those who know me that I do this because of the love. I am not looking to get famous or acquire a bunch of cash. I am following my passion and that's what is about for me.

Urijah Faber

#6. No labor is hopeless.

Philibert Joseph Roux

#7. I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.

Arthur Golden

#8. It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

Arthur Golden

#9. What is a life? A series of yeses and noes, photographs you shove in a drawer somewhere, loves you think will save you but that cannot. Continuing to move, enduring, not stopping even when there is pain. That's all life is, he wants to tell her. It's continuing.

Hala Alyan

#10. But you have to take control of your destiny. And sometimes that's not easy.

Mari Mancusi

#11. I went home, with new matters for my thoughts, though with no relief from the old.

Charles Dickens

#12. If I am wrong and you are right then the democratic process of the Australian community will vindicate you and condemn me.

John Howard

#13. Sexual freedom is about choice. It's the freedom to say no as well as yes.

Lillian B. Rubin

#14. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.

Stephen Hunter

#15. Love had been having her holed up in his house, scared that something was going to happen the moment she stepped out.

A'Zayler

#16. When we settle back into our selves, everything feels different, like if I turned on the light we'd be bears.

Jandy Nelson

#17. The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.

R. Lee Ermey