Yalsa Awards Quotes & Sayings

Foolish. Stupid. I knew it. I knew my reaction was unreasonable, bu the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal said that, and I've always found it to be true. — Megan Hart

The person who tolerates 'exactly' (with understanding) hands over his 'case' to nature. There is no need to punish anyone. Nature itself will punish him. — Dada Bhagwan

Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days. — Bruce Springsteen

Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial, we shall not need to spend much of this time on proofs. — Keith Devlin

But how can I learn to live in a world that doesn't include my brother? All my life, I've always been my brother's sister; it's part of my identity, part of who I am. My brother is part of my past; we share a common history. And we had plans for the future. — T.J. Wray

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind. — Henry David Thoreau

The longer we spent on Tarawa the more Sylvia and I came to realize that to live on Tarawa is to experience a visceral form of bipolar disorder. There is the ecstatic high, when you find yourself swept away in a lagoonside maneaba rumbling to the frenzied singing and dancing of hundreds of rapturous islanders. And there are the crushing lows, when you succumb to a listless depression, brought about by the unyielding heat, sporadic sickness, pitiless isolation, food shortages, and the realization that so much of what ails Tarawa, the overpopulation and all its attendant health and social problems, need not be as bad as it is. — J. Maarten Troost

We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves. — Zoketsu Norman Fischer

We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The land and everything on it can be taken away, but no one can take away your knowledge or the degrees you earn — Susan Abulhawa

The Bible is not a book of science. The Bible is a book of redemption, — David Frost