Siyayla Quotes & Sayings

There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our Puritan past. It is very suspicious of freedom, uncomfortable with diversity hostile to science, unfriendly to reason, contemptuous of personal autonomy. It sees America as a religious nation. It views patriotism as allegiance to God. It secretly adores coercion and conformity. Despite our constitution, despite the legacy of the Enlightenment, it appeals to millions of Americans and threatens our freedom. — Sherwin Wine

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. — John Cage

There is no dunce like a mature dunce. — George Santayana

The dead reaching for us, needing us, but this isn't true. There's only us reaching for them, trying to find ourselves. — David Vann

Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth; their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us into erudite apes like themselves. If any pupil showed the slightest trace of originality, they persecuted him relentlessly, and the only model pupils whom I have ever got to know have all been failures in after-life. — Adolf Hitler

I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all. — Lady Gaga

We imitate each other with slavish devotion and our most strenuous efforts are put forth to try to say the same thing that everyone around us is saying - and yet to find an excuse for saying it, some little safe variation on the approved theme or, if no more, at least a new illustration. — A.W. Tozer

The novel is a fucking killer. I try to show it every respect. — Don DeLillo

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another. — Fred Brooks

We're always our own villains in the end. Which makes them easy to defeat, once we're ready to admit we were the only ones in our own way. — Heidi Cullinan

Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight. — A. J. McLean

What a lot of people don't realise is that damage to hair starts from washing your hair in a rush and not taking all the product out such as leave-in conditioners. So I always make sure that I cleanse my hair properly and get the shampoo and conditioner completely out. — Genelia D'Souza

This is Communism's view of war. War is necessary. War is an instrument for achieving a goal.

But unfortunately for Communism, this policy ran up against the American atomic bomb in 1945. Then the Communists changed their tactics and suddenly became advocates of peace at any cost. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn