Yarding Block Quotes & Sayings

When you believe in something, stand up for it, even if everyone is sitting. — Natasha Friend

That the city would return to being the thriving white suburb of his youth. Cars with tail fins. Straw hats and sock hops. Episcopalians and ice cream socials. It would be the opposite of white flight, he said. "The Ku Klux influx." But when I'd ask him how, he'd just shrug and, like a conservative senator without any ideas, filibuster me with unrelated stories about the good ol' days. — Paul Beatty

May your turn your pain into prayer. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Jesus brings mystery, paradox, and tension - rarely did someone get a straight answer out of Him — Mike Erre

I wasn't aware we were fighting. I thought we were communicating, — E.L. James

My life might fall to shambles because of you." "Well, I'll be there to help you pick up the pieces. — Katie Kaleski

In America, far too large a portion of the diet consists of animal food. As a nation, the Americans are proverbial for the gross and luxurious diet with which they load their tables; and there can be no doubt that the general health of the nation would be increased by a change in our customs in this respect. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Listen, you know? Girls. They don't listen. They're in too much — Laura Lippman

One day the Singularity would elevate humans to cybernetic superbeings, and maybe then people would say what they meant.
Probably not, though. — Charlie Jane Anders

Perhaps it sounds too improbable to be believed; a girl disguised as a boy setting out alone, her only provisions a ragged bag filled with food, her only possession a vial of perfume, and her only protection the kitchen knife in her bag and her wits. And yet the journey involved nothing more complicated than putting one foot in front of the other. In my time as a traveler, I came to perceive that the incredible, the miraculous, the utterly unfathomable often unfold quietly, without commotion, without spectacle. (From The Wayward Moon) — Janice Weizman

Fuck with the bull, you get the horns. — Garth Ennis

Any conversation with Smith turned up at least one bit of human behavior which could not be justified logically, at least in terms that Smith could understand, and attempts to do so were endlessly time-consuming. — Robert A. Heinlein

Singing from your heart is like fresh air that heal you again from the pollution around you — Ahmed Farrag