Quotes About Ihara

#1. I can shoot off my big mouth and write my shows and run my shows, and I can recognize how lucky I am because my position is rare and my position is privileged.

Jenji Kohan

#2. If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.

Ihara Saikaku

#3. I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.

Julian Casablancas

#4. Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.

Ihara Saikaku

#5. Ancient simplicity is gone ... the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.

Ihara Saikaku

#6. The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.

Ihara Saikaku

#7. If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.

Ihara Saikaku

#8. His lips are spelling secrets and my ears are spilling ink, staining my skin with his stories.

Tahereh Mafi

#9. To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money.

Ihara Saikaku

#10. We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit.

Sharif Abdullah

#11. Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.

Ihara Saikaku

#12. And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night till old age - to be taken when required, like fish from a private pond.

Ihara Saikaku

#13. I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.

Pamela Anderson

#14. Keeps the Flare at bay because the virus thrives in your brain. Eats at it, destroys it. If there's not a lot of activity, the virus weakens.

James Dashner

#15. In life it is training rather than birth which counts.

Ihara Saikaku

#16. There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

Saikaku Ihara

#17. They made us participate in their own madness,
because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them led to us.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#18. I borrow moonlight for this journey of a million miles.

Saikaku Ihara

#19. Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.

Ihara Saikaku

#20. You meet someone, you care for them, and you fall in love; it's what it is.

Rebecca Ferguson

#21. Nero: "Am I forbidden to do what all may do?"
Seneca: "From high rank high example is expected.

Seneca.

#22. No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others.

Ihara Saikaku

#23. Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall ... his fortune melted to water.

Ihara Saikaku

#24. To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.

Ihara Saikaku

#25. In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.

Chip Conley

#26. For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.

Ihara Saikaku

#27. Never set goals you can reach in your lifetime.

Ted Turner

#28. When God is dead, kindness is permitted. When God is dead, kindness is all that people have.

Adam Phillips

#29. You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.

Catherine Deneuve

#30. That idiot...why a battle challenge on live T.V.

Shigekatsu Ihara

#31. When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.

Ihara Saikaku

#32. In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

Amber Frey

#33. Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him.

Ihara Saikaku