Yasiyorum Quotes & Sayings

It [the Constitution] didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been interpreted, and the Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can't do to you, it says what the federal government can't do to you, but it doesn't say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf. And that hasn't shifted. — Barack Obama

Snow not falling but flying sidewise, and sudden, not signaled by the slow curdling of clouds all day and a flake or two drifting downward, but rushing forward all at once as though sent for. (The blizzard of '36 had looked like that.) And filling up the world's concavities, pillowing up in the gloaming, making night light with its whiteness, and then falling still in every one's dreams, falling for pages and pages ... ("Novelty") — John Crowley

Being able to make people laugh is great, but it takes on a different meaning if they are laughing at you, not with you. — Tadahiko Nagao

Let me see. What are my other shortcomings? — Arthur Conan Doyle

What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or a week or even a month old. But suppose they were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes ... — Jeremy Bentham

If I had to define my philosophy, it would be about exploration, a journey, a story-telling. — Hussein Chalayan

Let us discuss why poetry has lost the power of making men brave. — E. M. Forster

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us. — Sappho

It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand. — Steven Erikson

I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really. — Fiona Apple