Yaroslavsky Institute Quotes & Sayings

Lead, follow - what difference does it make? It's all a choice. There's no escape in blame, no comfort in shirking responsibility. We all make choices. We must all face the consequences of those choices. — Wayne Thomas Batson

It has never been easier to get books but never harder to find the quiet needed to study them. — John Mark Reynolds

For Grace, After a Party"

You do not always know what I am feeling.
Last night in the warm spring air while I was
blazing my tirade against someone who doesn't
interest
me, it was love for you that set me
afire,

and isn't it odd? for in rooms full of
strangers my most tender feelings
writhe and
bear the fruit of screaming. Put out your hand,
isn't there
an ashtray, suddenly, there? beside
the bed? And someone you love enters the room
and says wouldn't
you like the eggs a little

different today?
And when they arrive they are
just plain scrambled eggs and the warm weather
is holding. — Frank O'Hara

Richard Gansey III had forgotten how many times he had been told he was destined for greatness. — Maggie Stiefvater

Never serve oysters in a month that has no paycheck in it. — P. J. O'Rourke

Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words ... — Yasunari Kawabata

There are more hidden spaces in a city, more hidden lives and hidden emptinesses, and more darkened windows where shadow people pass fleetingly in and out of sight. — Kate Milford

Since to avoid the painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious tendencies of human nature. — Aristotle.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. — John Irving

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush. — Daniel Dennett

13Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 14but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. — Anonymous

My brain kind of rolls pretty fast when I'm conscious. It's constantly looking for stuff to do. Like if I'm in my house and I'm hanging out, I tend to be listening to music whilst watching a film whilst sending e-mails. — Dominic Monaghan

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. — Elton John

To understand the language of love and peace, listen to the silence. — Debasish Mridha