Lecrivain Yasmina Quotes & Sayings

When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept them from picking up what I thought were obvious signals. — James Fallows

I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script. — Melanie Lynskey

All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady. — J.R.R. Tolkien

As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy! — Krishna Das

The reason we need a ransom to be paid for us is that we have sold ourselves into sin and have been alienated from a holy God. When Jesus gave his life as a ransom, our slave masters, sin and death and the Devil, had to give up their claim on us. And the result was that we could be adopted into the family of God. — John Piper

The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people. — Stanislav Grof

You cannot spend 2,000 years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we're not interested in it anymore. — Martin Walser

Writing is not complete when you've added everything you could, but rather, when you've taken away everything that is not needed. — Anne Clark

Sarah. I smiled. I couldn't help but appreciate the absolute perfection of the name; bland, common, and wholly unoriginal. Best of all, it means princess. — Katja Millay

I said I thought she had a very fine voice.
She nodded. 'I know. I'm going to be a professional singer.'
'Really? Opera?'
'Heavens, no. I'm going to sing jazz on the radio and make heaps of money. Then, when I'm thirty, I shall retire and live on a ranch in Ohio. — J.D. Salinger

The height of strategy, is to attack your opponent's strategy. — Sun Tzu

Much of our Fear, is based in the fear of loss. We fear losing our own lives. We fear death for our family and friends. We fear the loss of our means of survival. In the Western World that's tied up in the way we make money to support ourselves and families. In many parts of the World, it's more basic: food and water. We fear violence, oppression. We fear others. — Steve Bivans

If I cannot read and learn and have things that are worth thinking about, I would rather immolate myself than go on living. Synthetic — Walter Tevis

I used to waterski on the Niagara River. — Kim Alexis

We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without particular moral justifications that invariably offend; we want good without having to name evil; we want decency without the authority to insist upon it; we want more community without any limitations to personal freedom. In short, we want what we cannot possibly have on the terms that we want it. — James Davison Hunter