Quotes by Arthur Golden

“From this experience I understood the danger of focusing only on what isnt there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that Id spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize Id never really tasted the things Id eaten, or seen the places Id been, because Id 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.”

“Memoirs of a Geisha”

“Hes going to be receptive to the views of other partners and to changes, ... Hes a superb business lawyer. Thats much more important in terms of managing a law firm and dealing with the law firms clients.”

“Hes going to be receptive to the views of other partners and to changes. Hes a superb business lawyer. Thats much more important in terms of managing a law firm and dealing with the law firms clients.”

“Its 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 dont 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.”

“Its 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 dont 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.”

“Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.”

“I dont like things held up before me that I cannot have.”

“Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.”

“I had to wonder if men were so blind by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.”

If you arent the woman I think you are, then this isnt the world I thought it was.

Cant you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.

Of course, a sign doesnt mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.

It’s less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can’t stop from happening.

The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.