Yatatatata Quotes & Sayings

Don't try to understand other people's marriages, darling, even your parents'. You'll be lucky if you understand your own. — Laura Buzo

I shout at the radio when someone starts talking over the end of a song. Shut up! I don't want to hear that the DJ has just found a mouldy sandwich in the corner of the studio. Nor do I like it when the magic of something you're watching is shattered by an advert for Argos. — Jessica Brown Findlay

Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities. — Michael Eisner

Each life is unique. But for all, repentance will surely include passing through the portal of humble prayer. Our Father in Heaven can allow us to feel fully the conviction of our sins. He knows the depths of our remorse. He can then direct what we must do to qualify for forgiveness. — Henry B. Eyring

I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad. — Bjork

Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit. — Jack Kemp

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness? — Alain De Botton

Problems are good, not bad. Welcome them and become the solution. When you have solved enough problems, people will thank you. — Mark Victor Hansen

I want her to look at me and smile just to show that she knows that I know that she knows — Marlon James

They who search after the Philosopher's Stone [are] by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life. — Isaac Newton

You are
never responsible for the actions of others; you are only responsible for you. — Miguel Ruiz

Perhaps it was true, thought Alistair, that Septembers would come again. People would love the crisp cool of the mornings, and it would not remind them of the week war was declared....Alistair let the idea grow: that when the war's heat was spent, the last remaining pilots would ditch their last bombs into the sea and land their planes on cratered airfields that would slowly give way to brambles. That pilots would take off their jackets and ties, and pick fruit. — Chris Cleave

One could accept Muhammad as a genuine mystic - just as one could accept Joan of Arc's voices as having genuinely been heard by her, or the revelations of Saint John the Divine as being that troubled soul's 'real' experiences - without needing also to accept that, had one been standing next to the Prophet of Islam on Mount Hira that day, one would also have seen the Archangel. — Salman Rushdie