Yadao Family Crest Quotes & Sayings

I could never free myself from the thought that Nature is that which is slowly killing me. — Charles Simic

The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks. — Dennis Prager

What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch. — Tina Brown

Claire knew the flavor of solitude. It was cold as spring water, and not all could drink it; for some it was not refreshment, but mortal chill. — Diana Gabaldon

Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking or mathematics envy. — Marvin Minsky

Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself. — P.D. Ouspensky

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to. — Paul Valery

When once a social order is well established, no matter what injustice it involves, those who occupy a position of advantage are not long in coming to believe that it is the only possible and reasonable order ... — Suzanne La Follette

I could never figure out or probably did not take the trouble to figure out what the great philosophical problems are about. The momentous statements I come across are at best a storm in a teacup. There are quite a number of people who have a vested interest in the stuff, make a noble living out of it, and they conspire with one another to keep it alive. — Eric Hoffer

I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

You see people all the time who are on hit shows and then you never hear from them again. — Patricia Heaton

Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective image of the soul, till men of science, speculating, in their non-scientific intervals, like other men on what science may possibly lead to, have prophesied that we shall soon have to confess that the soul is nothing else than a function of certain complex material systems. — James Clerk Maxwell

I love storytelling when the writing spins through me like photons on their way to lighting the world. — Kay Kenyon

Every day we live, we are writing our own secret book. — Chrys Fey