Yakayak Quotes & Sayings

At this point the judge took over the questioning. "Didn't lynchings happen in Mississippi?" he asked. Yes, admitted the rating committee member, but it was all so long ago, why dwell on it now? "It is a history book, isn't it?" asked the judge. — James W. Loewen

I think, and I've thought this for a long time, that we live, roughly speaking, in the last generation of human beings. — Whitfield Diffie

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. — Oscar Wilde

As the company scales, everybody is not going to get invited to every single meeting, but they're gonna want to go to every meeting. — Keith Rabois

...I was confusing familiarity with happiness. Because that was there even when love wasn't... — Emma Cline

The thing is that this life is so precious and mysterious, I don't know what to say about it most of the time. Words are like birds, passing through the trackless sky. The dog barking, the sound of the purling stream, the wind among the weeping willow trees: how are these not right off the tongue of the Buddha?
Lama Surya Das — Lama Surya Das

True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary. — John Ortberg

Every man, he said, carries his own pyre. — Zia Haider Rahman

You also wonder if a restaurant placed an ad that read, "Only homeless need apply," would they get fined? Probably not. But if they said, "No homeless apply," they would be transient bigots. For as bureaucrats use language to punish the lawful, they use tolerance to coddle the troubled. — Greg Gutfeld

Forever," he vowed, still a little staggered.
"That's all I'm asking for," I said, — Stephenie Meyer

Scientists in general tend to have what I would call a bit of hubris that the public do not necessarily understand. So scientists some times make claims that are misunderstood by the public. — George Coyne

She licked her lips. "What is that called?"
Sex. He stopped himself just in time. "Chocolate. — Kerrelyn Sparks

It seethes and seethes, a river of darkness, putting forth lilies and snakes — D.H. Lawrence