quotes about Pistachios

“When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.”

“I've had somebody say, "I want you at my wedding, but I don't want you to pull focus, so wear jeans!" Losing my anonymity is something that's proving to be very challenging.... It's good for your soul to walk around unnoticed; there's so much you can't do when everybody knows who you are. And I so miss those little things.”

“In China there was once a man who liked pictures of dragons, and his clothing and furnishings were all designed accordingly. His deep affection for dragons was brought to the attention of the dragon god, and onde day a real dragon appeared before his window. It is said that he died of fright. He was probably a man who always spoke big words but acted differently when facing the real thing.”

Source : Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2012). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

“Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.”

“I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.”

“The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.”

“I think the US has the right to have its own national security policy. I think most Americans would agree with that. And therefore clarity on this issue is important and especially if we commit ourselves, explicitly and bindingly, to Israel's security.”

“The body is the substance of the stone.”

“Canada is a broad land - broad in mind, broad in spirit, and broad in physical expanse.”

“Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.”