Eric Yorkie Quotes & Sayings

He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe. — Sydney Smith

The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits. — Albert Camus

He was moving more than his life. He was moving his heart. Putting it closer than down the road from me. He was putting it right in my hands. Right where I'd wanted it since the first day I met him. — Katie Kacvinsky

From one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself; that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest. — Simone De Beauvoir

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. — Thomas Merton

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time. — John Ortberg

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him. — Marian Wright Edelman

It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined. — John Green

The victors' view of history rarely matches that of the vanquished. — Kevin Hearne

People will be much more likely to help you if they can see you're trying to help yourself. — Matt Wynne

The rhetoric and demands from all sides may be harsh, but there are obvious areas of agreement that can provide a basis for progress. Private discussions with Arab leaders are much more promising than their public statements would lead one to believe, and in Israel there is a strong and persistent constituency for moderation that is too little heard or appreciated in neighboring states or in America. — Jimmy Carter

If every major city in America went up in the flames of race riots tonight, how ready would you be? — Billy Roper

I have always felt that my career was not going to be a straight shot up, but more of a kind of rolling wave, so that I could raise my children. So I got pregnant when I was the head of production at a studio, and I became chairperson at a bigger studio when I was pregnant with my second daughter. You just do it! — Stacey Snider