Yealland Quotes & Sayings

Some families ran their own little version of the Middle East. — Tom Robbins

Virtue brings you many blessings;
wisdom multiplies them. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I know what it feels like to watch something happen and wish, going forward, that you could do something, anything, to change at least your world, the people around you, to keeo everything close to you safe — Sara Shepard

The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything - and this is the most cruel law - continually gets worse. — Thomas Bernhard

I wonder either their God has turned old, sick or died, because even the religious people no more believe in shit. — M.F. Moonzajer

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires. — Omar Khayyam

On the face of it he seemed to be congratulating himself on dealing with patients more humanely than Yealland, but then why the mood of self-accusation? In the dream he stood in Yealland's place. The dream seemed to be saying, in dream language, don't flatter yourself. There is no distinction. — Pat Barker

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity. — Soren Kierkegaard

Those men and women of Yangzhou died a hundred years ago, Tian Haoli, and nothing can be done to change that. But the past lives on in the form of memories, and those in power are always going to want to erase and silence the past, to bury the ghosts. Now that you know about the past, you're no longer an innocent bystander. If you do not act you are complicit with the Emperor and his Blood Drops in this new act of violence, this deed of erasure. Like Wang Xiuchu, you're now a witness. Like him, you must choose what to do. You must decide if, on the day you die, you will regret your choice. — Ken Liu

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on. — Carol Alt

Jamie didn't talk to me about the war. Most men don't, who've seen real combat. It's the ones who spent their tours well behind the lines who want to tell you all about it, and the ones who never served who want to know. — Hillary Jordan

Of all the men who attacked the flying problem in the 19th century, Otto Lilienthal was easily the most important ... It is true that attempts at gliding had been made hundreds of years before him, and that in the nineteenth century, Cayley, Spencer, Wenham, Mouillard, and many others were reported to have made feeble attempts to glide, but their failures were so complete that nothing of value resulted. — Otto Lilienthal

If you've got a good song, it's easy to play. But you can't make a bad song sound good no matter who you have to play on it. — Donald Dunn

The quality of your thoughts and the state of your mind will define how happy you are as a person. Happiness in your life comes from the way you think! — Sanchita Pandey

Are you walking asleep, or living awake? — Greg Glander