Yefsah Yacine Quotes & Sayings

Lots of people aren't self-promoters. You've just never heard of them. — Dorothy Gambrell

In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of the country, who did their work for them. — Arundhati Roy

I looked back towards the city, at the dusty plain and the narrow thread of the sea on the horizon, radiant in the late-afternoon sun like the scale coat of a giant dragon disappearing slowly from sight. — Emmi Itaranta

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on servility and shrink before independence. They feed upon worship as kings do upon flattery. That is why the cry of gods at all times is "Worship us or we perish." A dethroned monarch may retain some of his human dignity while driving a taxi for a living. But a god without his thunderbolt is a poor object. — Chapman Cohen

Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before. — T. S. Eliot

It were better, never to look beyond the present material world. By supposing it to contain the principle of its order within itself, we really assert it to be God; and the sooner we arrive at that divinity, the better. — David Hume

But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown! — William Cowper

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind. — Julian Fellowes

I make money, and I don't need money. — Sophia Amoruso

These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up. — Dave Winfield