Turqua Yarn Quotes & Sayings

And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly. — Joshua Reynolds

What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster. — Margaret Drabble

When external and internal forces hostile to the development of socialism try to turn the development of a given socialist country in the direction of the restoration of the capitalist system, when a threat arises to the cause of socialism in that country ... this is no longer merely a problem for that country's people, but a common problem, the concern of all socialist countries. — Leonid Brezhnev

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant. — John Simon

If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore? — Graham Hawkes

Small things can start us off in new ways of thinking, and I was started off by the postage stamps of our area. — V.S. Naipaul

You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place. — Jim Butcher

We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America. — Chris Christie

We all have a large stake in preserving our democracy, but I maintain that those without power in our society, the black, the brown, the poor of all colors, have the largest stake not because we have the most to lose, but because we have worked the hardest, and given the most, for what we have achieved. — Charles Rangel

Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is put out for them. — Maria Mitchell

There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body. — Robert Henri

The Baudelaire orphans looked worriedly out the window. They weren't very happy about just being dropped off in a strange place, as if they were a pizza being delivered instead of three children all alone in the world. — Lemony Snicket