
Top 30 Michiko's Quotes
#1. Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.
Leo Tolstoy
#2. They call it mourning. And I think that was the reason he tried so hard to be someone who functioned. By holding on to how things had always been, he was mourning what was missing.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#3. How come you're so different, I asked once, as we sat in the shade of the pine tree. Yukiko's answer, a sentence learned by heart: Because I fell from a star.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#4. What is everlasting? We are fireworks. Glowing bright and fading, we scatter sparks that soon die out.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#5. It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it's a crutch. What makes you think you don't limp?
William Sloane Coffin
#6. My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at the paper and the articles she wrote. She had the best memory of anyone I know, and she could really tell a tale.
Candace Camp
#7. I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
Paul McCartney
#8. The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans.
Richard Dawkins
#9. The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.
Frank Lowy
#10. A person is on the right track if he develops his gift and turns it to minister to God
Sunday Adelaja
#12. Growing up signifies a loss. You think you are winning. Really you are losing yourself.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#15. The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged the delusion that candor, daring and shamelessness are substitutes for craft, that the exposed life is the same thing as an examined one.
Michiko Kakutani
#16. To have an extraordinary quality of life you need two skills: the science of achievement (the ability to take anything you envision and make it real) and the art of fulfillment (this allows you to enjoy every moment of it.
Tony Robbins
#17. He pointed to the right and left. We are unfree, all of us. Only, that does not absolve us of responsibility. Despite our lack of freedom we constantly make decisions and we have to take responsibility for them and their consequences. And so, with every decision we take we become less free.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#18. Hard to remember these days that there was a time you had to wait for the ink and paper reviews to see your work excoriated. With the invention of the internet, any subliterate cretin can be Michiko Kakutani.
Robert Galbraith
#19. When does someone love you enough to put you before himself? Had I done so with Michiko?
Deborah Baldwin
#20. That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.
Benjamin Franklin
#21. That's not important,' he said, and when Detective Wilson said that, I was sure he didn't know the answer, 'not important' being just one of the things we call that which we don't know.
Brock Clarke
#22. As we celebrate the evolution of the life of one so special, we embrace the meaning of life, itself.
Eleesha
#23. Visiting a brothel is respectable, the vicar's widow asks with her brows raised?" "They
Jennifer Ashley
#24. He thrashed like a freshly caught fish as the sucking sounds of draining water gurgled from the pooling blood in his mouth.
Michiko Katsu
#25. A well rounded education never hurt anyone".
~R. Alan Woods [1999]
R. Alan Woods
#27. Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.
Benjamin Franklin
#29. What you don't do, what you omit, often has more painful consequences than what you do.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#30. How to describe the bitterness? I was a glass, broken, and the space I once enclosed was now the same as the space around. Deserted space, in which I was lost, sharp knives under my feet. With each step it became less likely that I would ever get anywhere.
Milena Michiko Flasar
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