Nicolina Yassaman Quotes & Sayings

I'm competitive and I have a messy purse, but otherwise, I like people to think I'm a winner. — Jenny Slate

The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary. Thus, the future of democracy depended on the people, and their growing consciousness of what was the decent way to relate to their fellow human beings all over the world. — Howard Zinn

Climbing hills was never one of my great ambitions. Perhaps I was just lazy, but I admit
now that I've been climbing a hill every other day
that it's very difficult to think about the stresses in your life while you're trying to avoid falling backwards when a goat with large horns is chasing you because you came too close to the little patch of grass he was planning to eat for breakfast. — Gene Wilder

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty ! — William Blake

This was always my trouble when I was learning to speak your language. Every word can defend itself. Just when you go to grab it, it can split into two separate meanings so the understanding closes on empty air. I admire you people. You are like sorcerers and you have made your language as safe as your money. — Chris Cleave

I can choose to be happy, or choose to be miserable every day - waiting until I die. — Angel Haze

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. — Moshe Dayan

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them. — Alison Bechdel

And I thought chivalry was dead!" ...
"Maybe it is. I opened a door into her head. — Katie Alender

It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.] — Winston Churchill

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto

People tell you to write what you know, but I've found that writing what you know is much harder than making it up. It's easier to research a historical period than your own life, and it's much easier to deal with things that have a little less emotional weight and where you have a little more detachment. It's terrible advice! So this is why you'll find there's no such place as the Welsh valleys, no coal under them, and no red buses running up and down them; there never was such a year as 1979, no such age as fifteen, and no such planet as Earth. The fairies are real, though. — Jo Walton

1SA17.9 If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us. 1SA17.10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together. — Anonymous

Beautiful rainbows are formed in ugly storms. — Matshona Dhliwayo