Song Of The Yukonk Quotes & Sayings

Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers. — Alice B. Toklas

It is so tiring to hate someone you love. — Simone De Beauvoir

Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.) — Voltaire

As a writer, I marinate, speculate, and hibernate. — Trisha Sugarek

She seems to give a respectful credence to the statement that "God is love"only to hurry on to explore with real interest the possibility that "God is wrath." She can read from the book of Revelation with a ringing conviction in her voice that can make the creation seem only a stage setting for the triumphant thunderation of end. — Wendell Berry

BEFORE A MEETING God of peace, we ask your blessing on our meeting. Help us to set aside our busyness and focus on the task at hand. Give us wisdom, discernment and integrity, boldness to speak and a willingness to listen. Keep us mindful of those our decisions will affect, and may all our deliberations be to your glory. — Jan McFarlane

Who was blowing on the nape of my neck. — David Mitchell

We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When the paper trail disappeared, we used DNA analysis. The technology was just being invented that allowed you to trace ancestry through DNA. — Henry Louis Gates

Democrats and Republicans love Israel and all of us care about the existential threat to Israel from Iran. — Jane Harman

I know that not all my readers like my digressions, but the research that has been done on Caenorhabditis elegans is such a ringing triumph of science that you aren't going to stop me. — Richard Dawkins

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The fate of Susan Pevensie indicates some sort of crazed, deranged Manichaeism. Here's a simple test: What is the greatest Christian virtue? Well, it's charity, isn't it? It's love. If somebody who knew nothing about Christian doctrine, and who had been told that Lewis was a great Christian teacher, read all the way through those books, would he get that message? No. — Philip Pullman