(16 quotes found)
“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.”
Arthur Golden
“Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.”
“From this experience I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.”
“We can never flee the misery that is within us.”
“Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.”
“I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.”
“Memoirs of a Geisha”
“He's going to be receptive to the views of other partners and to changes, ... He's a superb business lawyer. That's much more important in terms of managing a law firm and dealing with the law firm's clients.”
“He's going to be receptive to the views of other partners and to changes. He's a superb business lawyer. That's much more important in terms of managing a law firm and dealing with the law firm's clients.”
“It's worth bearing in mind that 'Hamlet' makes poor Danish history and that 'Lawrence of Arabia' grossly oversimplifies the politics and cultures of the Middle East. I don't mean to say that drama should never concern itself with factual accuracy, only that a work of art must be judged by a higher standard.”
