Yasunari Kawabata Quotes

THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.

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• Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Financial

• You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • You
  • Australia
  • Everywhere

• Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • Sweet
  • Where
  • Content

• A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • She
  • Woman
  • Moral

• Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

  

  Pat Barker
  • World
  • War
  • First

• I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Think
  • Find
  • Down

• Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Financial
  • More
  • Accountants

• In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Country
  • Ambassador

• I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Feel
  • Audience
  • Sensitive

• Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.

  

  Pancho Villa
  • Like
  • End
  • Said

• You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Know

• People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Long
  • Conviction

• Since the age of 14, I have littered – excuse me, adorned – the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Me
  • Internet
  • Excuse

• They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Years
  • Thought
  • System

• Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • She
  • Game

• My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Happy
  • Parents
  • Car

• I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Family
  • Girl
  • Second Chance

• One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Up
  • History

• He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in the summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Intelligence
  • Creature

• It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Important
  • Single
  • Firsts

• We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Destroy
  • Letters
  • Breath Of Life

• This country does not punish its political enemies. What this country ensures is that no one is above the law.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • Country
  • Political
  • Law

• When you get out of school, you just go where the wind blows: Here's an audition; there's an audition. And before you know it, you're where you're supposed to be. And that was Second City.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • School
  • City
  • Wind

• THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.

  

  Yasunari Kawabata
  • Long
  • Country
  • Snow