Yokomizo Seishi Quotes

#1. Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.

Paulo Coelho

#2. The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

Albert Einstein

#3. Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that they are taught. They choose their lords and masters without judging them, with a fatal taste for slavery.

Gabriel Chevallier

#4. The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.

Marcel Proust

#5. Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

Lennart Meri

#6. Histories are like novels in that they set out to provide more or less comprehensive accounts of social systems.

Mikhail Bakhtin

#7. For me, I want to get across the stage to the people. I want to point at you, thirty, forty rows back, and you know I'm pointing at you, and we're having a laugh and getting it together.

Ringo Starr

#8. By seeing the way a joke worked in the horseplay of a printing shop two centuries ago, we may be able to recapture that missing element - laughter, sheer laughter, the thigh-slapping, rib-cracking Rabelaisian kind, rather than the Voltairian smirk with which we are familiar.

Robert Darnton

#9. I am a Soviet born American Jew. I was born in and left Soviet Union, while it was and in some cases still is, oppressive and socialist nation. I love America and being an American. I could never understand, why would people willingly give up their freedom!!

Jake Danishevsky

#10. I sign off not only every investment, but every dollar that goes out the door - I'm aware of it.

Bill Maris

#11. Little Ann," he called
I spun back, and my heart was crushed by the regret on his face. His arms were crossed.
"Don't change too much." With that he looked away, and the manager directed me to the exit.

Wendy Higgins

#12. God's greatest blessings are upon those who show the proper respect for the poor and the needy.

Lester Roloff

#13. Grace is not just enough, it is more than enough. 2 Peter 1:2

John Paul Warren

#14. Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it's time for you to get out of the way.

Mitt Romney

#15. I suppose that Italy must always lie like some lovely sunken island at the bottom of all passionate dreams, from which at the flood it may arise; the air of it is charged with subtle essences of romance. One supposes Italy must be organized for the need of lovers.

Mary Hunter Austin