Kotona Hirakawa Quotes

#1. Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

William Arthur Ward

#2. A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.

Aminatta Forna

#3. I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.

Michel Foucault

#4. You and I aren't friends either.

Richelle Mead

#5. The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

Gustave Courbet

#6. When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do ...

Caitlin Thomas

#7. The inside of a house or apartment after decluttering has much in common with a Shinto shrine ... a place where there are no unnecessary things, and our thoughts become clear.

Marie Kondo

#8. At eighteen I thought I knew everything, then at thirty, I realized that I knew nothing--and possibly never would, which depressed me until I noticed that no one else knew anything either.

Shirley Conran

#9. There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

Lion Feuchtwanger

#10. Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned; and I will go still further, and say that this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord had given, and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned.

Brigham Young

#11. I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

Horace

#12. As we talk with candour, we open the doors to new possibilities and new areas of cooperation in advance in democracy, in combating terrorism, in energy and environment, science and technology and international peacekeeping.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#13. He would give every penny he has (such is the malignity of the germ) to write one little book and become famous; yet all the gold in Peru will not buy him the treasure of a well-turned line.

Virginia Woolf

#14. Have I today done anything to fulfill the purpose for which Thou didst cause me to be born?

John Baillie

#15. But since 'tis as 'tis, why, it might have been worse, and I feel my thanks accordingly.

Thomas Hardy