Motohiro Shima Quotes

#1. Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is building housing, running prisons, collecting garbage, or innumerable other things. Why in the world would we imagine that health care would be the exception?

Thomas Sowell

#2. The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you want to do in life?' I was 21 years old, and I said, 'I have no idea.' And she said, 'If you work long enough and hard enough, you'll find something.'

Robert Wilson

#3. War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"

Lord Byron

#4. It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had, - being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity."

Athenaeus

#5. It is a law of nature that a dream carried for too long inside you must, eventually, begin to rot.

Neil Bartlett

#6. Many deeply hidden memories have come flooding back. The important message here though is that it is possible to heal and survive. Everyone has survived their own kind of emotional or mental trauma. We all have our inner fears and misreplaced feelings of guilt.

Lynette Gould

#7. I was a curious boy, but the schools were not concerned with curiosity. They were concerned with compliance. I loved a few of my teachers. But I cannot say that I truly believed any of them.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#8. There's no pride in having been a child soldier.

Emmanuel Jal

#9. I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.

Max Ehrmann

#10. Yo! You're my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I'd have asked for it, Motherfucker!

Mark Leyner

#11. Sometimes, in order to solve a lingering problem, perseverance seems to be the only option

Lamees Alhassar

#12. While the innocent yearned to lose their innocence, those who had already done so in turn envied the innocent, and knew grief in what they had lost. Between the two, no exchange of truths was possible.

Steven Erikson

#13. When God said it it's a done deal because He's a faithful God.

Euginia Herlihy

#14. A story can start from the oddest things: a magic lamp, a conversation overheard, a shadow moving on a wall.

Ahdaf Soueif