Remembering Yolanda Quotes & Sayings

And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them. — Ann Radcliffe

Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other. — Antony Beevor

I really enjoyed coaching. — Joe Paterno

You sank my truck, you insulted my sauce, and you violated Ramona! — Vic

Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant. — Paul Berg

Those upper classes, to rule, needed to make concessions to the middle class, without damage to their own wealth or power, at the expense of slaves, Indians, and poor whites. This bought loyalty. And to bind that loyalty with something more powerful even than material advantage, the ruling group found, in the 1760s and 1770s, a wonderfully useful device. That device was the language of liberty and equality, which could unite just enough whites to fight a Revolution against England, without ending either slavery or inequality. — Howard Zinn

Some people exist in your life to make it better. Some people exist to make it worse. — Nicola Yoon