Yakko San Quotes & Sayings

Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself. — Laura Riding

Human nature is a scoundrel's favorite explanation. — Mason Cooley

Sanctity has to do with gratitude. To be a saint is to be fueled by gratitude, nothing more and nothing less. — Ronald Rolheiser

Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality ... — James Anthony Froude

Behaviors and feelings rarely line up — Richelle Mead

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people. — Cynthia Kenyon

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe. — Eamon De Valera

It takes one asshole to ruin the whole thing. That's it. One. The problem with the world is one asshole comes up with a really bad idea and now we're all taking our shoes off at the airport. — Steven Soderbergh

It came to me with great force that I was wasting my life, that I was wasting it by living from day to day in a state of waiting, that I had in effect given myself up as a prisoner to this war. — J.M. Coetzee

People who are good to each other make each other good. — Jo Coudert

The law was not about truth. It was about negotiation, amelioration, manipulation. — Michael Connelly

Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching fish is actually the point. — John Gierach

There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate. — Ernest Hemingway,

Holiness is religious principle put into motion. It is the love of God sent forth into circulation, on the feet, and with the hands of love to men. It is faith gone to work. It is charity coined into actions, and devotion breathing benedictions on human suffering, while it goes up in intercession to the Father of all piety. — Frederic Dan Huntington

It's much simpler to be tortured on camera or to be filmed losing your mind. Whereas a script that has characters who are honest, witty and genuine is often much harder to act. — Ellen Page