Yanovate Quotes & Sayings

In my lifetime, I may have put too much emphasis on winning, because here I am an old man and the only fun I've had is winning, and that's ridiculous. — Bear Bryant

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones. — Anatole France

We can never lose anything that is good, never lose love or the memories of great happiness because they are true. — Joyce Grenfell

Using adverbs is a mortal sin. — Elmore Leonard

you can survive without bread, but without love you're dead — Svetlana Alexievich

Dating is a man-made ideology: if having a lover was a prerequisite to living, one would either be in a relationship, or, six feet under. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

He that attends to his interior self,
That has a heart, and keeps it; has a mind
That hungers, and supplies it; and who seeks
A social, not a dissipated life,
Has business. — William Cowper

To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even to ourselves, because it is only by journeying for the world's sake - even when the world bores and sickens and scares you half to death - that little by little we start to come alive. — Frederick Buechner

Growing up in Kansas City, I was always neat, the teacher's pet, know-it-all type. — Gretchen Rubin

I used to do Korean classical music and started training to join an idol group after someone set me up an interview with my current agency. The common thing between Korean classical music and becoming a singer is that I get to go on stage which why I decided to get professional training for K-pop music without holding any bias. — Kim Him-chan

Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence to it. Indeed, it is often a mask for cowardice, and few are more pathetic than those who flaunt outer differences to expiate their inner surrender. — William H. Whyte