Takaki Quotes

#1. The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this very principle of equality, as Lincoln also noted, was a "proposition." To make it a reality remained "the unfinished work" of Americans.

Ronald Takaki

#2. He was her drug. He always had been. And until that very moment neither of them realized that she was his as well. He couldn't get enough

Ginger Voight

#3. Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of.

Evan Davis

#4. The task for me is to not only comprehend the world, but to change the world. I would like to see a world where America lives up to its ideals, and resolves the contradiction between reality and principles.

Ronald Takaki

#5. If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.

Anthony De Mello

#6. The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.

Lucy Powell

#7. The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.

John Fowles

#8. I always thought about you. From the night I took you home. I never really stopped thinking about you.

Bethany Griffin

#9. I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.

Saul Bellow

#10. Life is an adventure I am enjoying creating.

Jay Woodman

#11. Sometimes, unfortunately, when we make choices there are consequences but, ultimately, the longer we keep things down and hold them secret, the longer the enemy can use them against us.

Shari Wiedmann

#12. With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that I responded to it and I liked whatever it was offering me.

Kurt Wagner

#13. We flew over to England by the same route Churchill took. It was easy. All we had to do was follow the cigar ashes.

Bob Hope

#14. I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

Pico Iyer