Ohkura Dam Quotes

#1. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and today -- all without seeing him. It is a long time to be alone; still, it is better to be alone that unwelcome. I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals.

Mark Twain

#2. The Language Laboratory at Cambridge is a very good way of finding out about grammar and the vocabulary and that's why I learned to read German and later on I added Spanish, the standard European languages.

Clive James

#3. 290 To reform. Every day a little. This has to be your constant task if you really want to become a saint.

Josemaria Escriva

#4. Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.

Andrew Wiles

#5. It is more gratifying to bask in praise for courageously protesting the abuses of official enemies: a fine activity, but not the priority of a value-oriented intellectual who takes the responsibilities of that stance seriously.

Noam Chomsky

#6. Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.

Chris Hedges

#7. But was it Faulkner who said that the past was not even past?

Garth Risk Hallberg

#8. Sometimes a strong wind blows suddenly and you leave your beloved tree without saying even goodbye, like a pale autumn leaf! This uncertainty of life makes every moment in life infinitely precious.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.

Harry Dean Stanton

#10. Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?

Aristophanes

#11. [But if things continue the way they are] ... the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war ...

Ahad Ha'am