Shirakawa Go Village Quotes

#1. Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

#2. Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.

Dodie Smith

#3. He, being hacked and cut for three solid quarters of an hour by the vigorous hands that had taken charge of his education, was soon nothing but a single wound, from which blood spurted out on all sides.

Marquis De Sade

#4. Why do humans need answers? Partly I suppose because without one, almost any one, the question itself soon sounds silly.

Jeanette Winterson

#5. People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.

Richard Avedon

#6. When a book comes from the publisher and you see it for the first time ... Of course it's not remotely like seeing a baby for the first time, but I can remember with each book what room I was in when I opened it. That would be excitement, though, I think. Not pride.

Colm Toibin

#7. I'm very appreciative and humbled by the success of 'Prison Break.'

Dominic Purcell

#8. Immediately after his re-election [Cameron] announced: "For too long we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens so long as you obey the law we will leave you alone." A statement so far to the right that it conceded the political centre ground to Judge Dredd.

Frankie Boyle

#9. Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not commit adultery. Don't eat pork. I'm sorry, what was that last one?? Don't eat pork. God has spoken. Is that the word of God or is that pigs trying to outsmart everybody?

Jon Stewart

#10. She knew she was lovely, and she shared it like a gift. Every smile from Agatha was like waking up to a perfect sunny day. Agatha knew it. And she smiled at everyone who crossed her path, as if it were the most generous thing she could offer.

Rainbow Rowell

#11. The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.

James Cromwell

#12. I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.

Jean Paul Gaultier