Yalie Quotes & Sayings

The lies are in different places. — David Adams Richards

I love improvisation. It's quite exciting. — Tcheky Karyo

My mind was getting away from reality again, and I reluctantly drew it back in. There is no getting away from reality. — David Levithan

Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her. — J.K. Rowling

Giving one another the rather embarrassed grins of people who know that they've just been part of a synchronized making-a-fool-of-yourself team. — Terry Pratchett

I know you've been aching to have your hands on my staff," I said to Ascher, as Nicodemus examined the altar for himself. I held out my hand. "But I'd rather be the one fondling my tool. Wizards are weird like that."
"Wow," she said, and flashed me a grin, her face flushed, excited. "You left me nowhere to go with that one. I have nothing to add. — Jim Butcher

The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves. — Pixie Lott

Islam and Christianity promise eternal paradise to the faithful. And that is a powerful opiate, certainly, the hope of a better life to come. But there's a Sufi story that challenges the notion that people believe only because they need an opiate. Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seem running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered, 'I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven of fear of hell, but because He is God. — John Green

We are a mirror to show god it's cruelty. — Steve Aylett

It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book. — Sara Sheridan

Most board meetings amount to little more than intellectual masturbation. They are ideas that cause thrills, chills, and satisfaction, but there is no impregnation. Nothing is ever born of them. It's intellectual masturbation. — Steve Maraboli

A teacher must be greater than his students; a student must aspire to be greater than his teacher. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Mankind's role is to fulfil his heaven-sent purpose through a sincere heart that is in harmony with all creation and loves all things. — Morihei Ueshiba

Numbers still gave Astrid pleasure. That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two equaled four. And math never, ever condemned you for your thoughts and desires. — Michael Grant

There's only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return. — Brian McKnight