Yacubs History Quotes & Sayings

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live. — Alan Watts

I'm happy with what I've achieved. — Sofia Vergara

What! have you no monks who teach, who dispute, who govern, who cabal, and who burn people that are not of their opinion? — Voltaire

Black music is too big and too powerful not to have its own awards show. — Don Cornelius

See life as if it is a miracle, and will find that it is indeed a miracle! — Debasish Mridha

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control. — Gina Carano

In popular culture, when women compete, it's usually over a man, and it's usually very nasty. And that is just frankly not my experience. That's just some kind of popular mythology, it feels like. I find it insulting. — Kelly Sue DeConnick

A co-op woman, old, tired, Jewish, fake drops of jade spread across the little sacks of her bosom, looked up at the pending wind and said one word: "Blustery." Just one word, a word meaning no more than "a period of time characterized by strong winds," but it caught me unaware, it reminded me of how language was once used, its precision and simplicity, its capacity for recall. Not cold, not chilly, blustery ...
"It is blustery, ma'am," I said to the old co-op woman. "I can feel it in my bones." And she smiled at me with whatever facial muscles she still had in reserve. We were communicating with words. — Gary Shteyngart

It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness. — Sigmund Freud

Things form and never know decay. — Lao-Tzu

Atheists well understand that Christmas is the most visible display of religion in the world, and that any diminishment of it is a good thing to militant secularists. — Bill O'Reilly

We are not here to adopt Western values, we are here to colonize the U.S. (and Canada) and spread Islamic sharia law Canada has one of the easiest legal systems to penetrate and advance sharia from within ... but if that doesn't work, we won't hesitate to use violent jihad. — Tariq Ramadan

He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes. — James Russell Lowell