Yangjia Quotes & Sayings

You may kill me here; but you cannot make me go back. — Morning Star

However, although The Da Vinci Code did a whole heap of things defectively, it did one thing stupefyingly well - the plot. It was as though Brown had jettisoned all traces of style and credibility from his novel because he had realised, in a flash of Leonardo-like scientific insight, that style and credibility were the very properties preventing his theoretical story-balloon from taking flight. So they had been tossed over the side, along with beauty, truth and five hundred years of literary progress. — Andy Miller

I wear makeup and dress this way because I think it makes me look better. I am not doing it to get people to stare at me. If I wanted to do that I could just put a pot on my head, wear a wedding dress, and run screaming down the street. — Boy George

I do try to let what is obviously unintended yet naturally good stay in. — George Murray

Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers. — John Quincy Adams

From what I've been told, the scariest part of being part of a domestic abuse relationship is the idea that you cannot escape and you cannot get help, that feeling of being stuck. — Kerry Washington

The Foxhole Court was the only home he needed; he Foxes were his family. — Nora Sakavic

Aristotle didn't have a problem with abortion," she says.
"Oh, well, good, that's a comfort," I say. — Deborah Meyler

The outstanding examples are still Cardozo's Nature of the Judicial Process18 — Richard A. Posner

As soon as someone I don't respect tells me I can't do something, it just makes me want to do it even more. — Kenneth Branagh

If we want to change our world, we do not begin by rectifying the outward. Instead, we must change the condition of our inward. — Hamza Yusuf

Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining oxygen is also an individual, an animal, and is alive. Recapitulation: the two individuals combined, constitute a third individual-and yet each continues to be an individual ... here was mute Nature explaining the sublime mystery of the Trinity so luminously that even the commonest understanding could comprehend it, whereas many a trained master of words had labored to do it with speech and failed. — Mark Twain

Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I. — Eydie Gorme

We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept. — James Cameron

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more! — Edmund Waller