Yalsa Blog Quotes & Sayings

There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there. — Helen McCloy

The locals were pragmatic about their animals in a way the city people found callous. — Anna Quindlen

God is not a cruel slave driver or a bully who uses brute force to coerce us into submission. He doesn't try to break our will, but woos us to himself so that we might offer ourselves freely to him. God is a lover and a liberator, and surrendering to him brings freedom, not bondage. When we completely surrender ourselves to Jesus, we discover that he is not a tyrant, but a savior; not a boss, but a brother; not a dictator, but a friend. — Rick Warren

It's just such a blessing that I get to be paid for something that I'm in love with. — Paige VanZant

He did not kiss her, for the hour was half-past twelve, and the car was passing by the stables of Buckingham Palace. — E. M. Forster

I always tell my wife, 'If you're ever looking for something to put on my gravestone, put down, 'He was an honest man, and he never held a grudge.' — Doug Harvey

Delirium: Um. What's the name of the word for things not being the same always. You know. I'm sure there is one. Isn't there? There must be a word for it ... the thing that lets you know time is happening. Is there a word?
Dream: Change.
Delirium: ... I was afraid of that. — Neil Gaiman

We can thank God for everything good, and all the rest we don't comprehend yet. — Kristin Armstrong

At the beginning of this study on the conditions of suggestion, we have admitted that suggestion could not develop in sickly minds - that it demanded, in order to attain to its full power, minds relatively sane. We have just now demonstrated that it depended on a lack of synthesis, on a weakening of consciousness. Are not these two affirmations contradictory ? Not at all. A symptom may disappear in certain maladies and still remain a pathological symptom. The crepitant rale does not exist in all stages of pneumonia; it disappears in many serious lung affections; it is none the less a very characteristic sign of the disease. — Anonymous

Those yesterdreams were just a cruel and foolish game we used to play, yester-me, yester-you, yesterday. — Stevie Wonder

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell. — Kevin Bacon

All the best things are like that, though, Lex, the most beautiful things. Part of the beauty comes from the fact that they're short-lived. — Cynthia Hand

By this evening," he declared, "we will all know who we are and what we're doing here! — Russell Banks

Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society. — E. M. Forster

I like Obama, but I understand that his hands are tied, the way Congress is reacting. It's just partisan politics everywhere, and don't know how we going to get things done in the future without compromising a little bit. — Ice Cube