Yearance And Son Quotes & Sayings

You can't outwit fate by trying to stand on the sidelines and place little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in and risk everything to play the game, or you don't play at all. And if you don't play, you can't win. — Judith McNaught

Making friends with the impersonal necessity of death is an ethical way of installing oneself in life as a transient, slightly wounded visitor. — Rosi Braidotti

Whenever I try to do something, I figure out what other people aren't doing or how can I do it different or how can I stand out. — Clinton Sparks

From the east a spring breeze is touching us,
passing by,
And so in the goblet in the green wine
tiny ripples are formed.
The blossoms stolen by the whirl
are falling to the earth.
My fair girl will be drunken soon
with her blushed cheeks.
Beside the blue pavilion the peach tree -
Do you know, how long it will bloom?
It's a trembling shine, a dream:
it cheats us and steals away.
Rise and dance!
The sun is fading!
Who never was full of demanding live
and crazy in his young days
will vainly - when the hair
is white - sigh and wail. — Li Bai

There are a few good ones, but most are losers who are too stupid to realize they are losers. And who are we to tell them? They are vastly superior to us, regardless of their stupidity, and they enjoy reminding us of this. — John Grisham

The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind. — Eckhart Tolle

That would make a good public service announcement, he mused ruefully: "Don't use your cell phone while driving. You might not notice the serial killer ahead waiting to shoot you. — Russell Atkinson

Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board). — Jerome K. Jerome

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. — Adam Smith

For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation. — Alain De Botton

Our prayers are granted as soon as we have prayed, even though the process of fulfilling our requests has not yet begun. — Thomas Goodwin

Dad can be such a pussy. But Mum can be such a dick. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Hee that falles into the durt, the longer he stayes there, the fowler he is. — George Herbert

I promise. I promise, you have my heart, and you have me. You will always have me. — Katy Evans

People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. — Andy Warhol