"On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease, we bring forth the wine cups."

-- Yoshida Kenko

#Wine Quotes #Night Quotes #Add Quotes

“What greater thing can you do - besides for God - than good for other people? That goes for you mean people, too - I mean, really, what is your problem?”

Source : "Ysabella Brave"/"We Are a Powder Drink", August 20, 2008.
“Over-production is not possible in all branches of industry at once, but it is possible in some as compared to others.”
“The spacious firmament on high, And all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim.”
“The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool.”
“Responsibility is always a sign of trust.”
“I decided to take two years between finishing undergraduate and beginning medical school to devote fully to medical research. I knew that I wanted to go to medical school during undergraduate, but I was also eager to get a significant amount of research experience.”
“We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”
“After spending most of her life scanning the horizon for slights and threats, genuine and imagined, she knew the real threat to her happiness came not from the dot in the distance, but from looking for it. Expecting it. Waiting for it. And in some cases, creating it. Her father had jokingly accused her of living in the wreckage of her future. Until one day she'd looked deep into his eyes and saw he wasn't joking. He was warning her.”

Source : Louise Penny (2014). “The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.22, Macmillan

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