Mameha Quotes

#1. Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about.
[Mameha]

Arthur Golden

#2. But, Mameha-san, I don't want kindness!"
"Don't you? I thought we all wanted kindness. Perhaps what you mean is that you want something more than kindness. And that is something you're in no position to ask.

Arthur Golden

#3. If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle

Arthur Golden

#4. If we rub a fabric too often, it will quickly grow threadbare; and Nobu's words had rasped against me so much, I could no longer maintain that finely lacquered surface Mameha had always counseled me to hide behind.

Arthur Golden

#5. What more can anyone take from me?" said my father, his head bent down. "Everywhere I go I carry my hell with me.

Sally Gardner

#6. We call them taxis where I come from. And bookstores." God, he was stuffy. "We call them manners where I come from, Ms. Lane. Have you any?

Karen Marie Moning

#7. When we did the sign outside, we did not do the cigarette or the mug of beer because it was going to be outside. I wasn't sure if the city would object.

John Gates

#8. Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#9. Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

Maimonides

#10. It's often the case that when a critic uses an embarrassingly accurate term to describe what a wrong-doer is doing, the wrong-doer protests: "Why don't you use my white-washed, conscience-soothing euphemism?" Such euphemisms, they claim, help promote "civilized debate."

Steve Kangas

#11. The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.

Bum Phillips

#12. What are we so afraid of? Why don't we let 'em tell us we're afraid? What is it they're afraid of?" She picked up the stocking she had been darning, turned it in her hands, was silent awhile; finally she said, "What are they afraid of us for?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#13. Our belief in a limited and impoverished identity is such a strong habit that without it we are afraid we wouldn't know how to be.

Jack Kornfield

#14. If someone where playing tennis you wouldn't walk onto the court and begin to have a conversion with them, likewise I think reading is at least as important as a game of tennis.

Ian McEwan