Lillian Florence Hellman
To hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in order to save myself is, to me, inhuman and indecent and dishonorable. I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.
guerilla heavy rainは和製英語で、torrential rainが正しい。また従来の集中豪雨はconcentrated heavy rain。東京はこの100年で3℃上昇。ゲリラ豪雨で川の水位はたった10分で1.3m上がる、要注意。
I am concerned for the octopus ... I am thinking of sending him a protective team, joked Zapatero on Radio Cadena Ser.
All the exhortations in the world are useless if they are not followed by action.(行動に移さなければ,この世の諫めなど全て無駄だ)
YOUTH (Samuel Ullman)
Youth is not a time of life -- it is a state of mind; It is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over love of ease.
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old only by deserting their ideals.
Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair -- these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every beings' heart, the love of wonder, the sweet amazement at stars and the starlike things and thoughts, the undaunted challenge of events the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt;
as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear,
as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
So long as your heart receives messages of beauty, cheer, courage, grandeur importance and power from the earth, from man and from the Infinite, so long you are young.
When the wires are all down and all the central place of your heart is covered with snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then you are grown old indeed and may God have mercy on your soul.