Yentas Language Quotes & Sayings

Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living. — Ludwig Von Mises

The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong". — U Thant

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions. — M.H. Abrams

Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity. — Pope Innocent III

Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes upon the unknown processes of matter. It demands only an enquiring mind and senses alive to the facts almost everywhere presented in nature. And as it may be acquired without much difficulty, so it may be improved without much painful exertion. — Humphry Davy

I protest against all our interest, all our effort at understanding being given to the young skins that look blooming in spite of trouble; for these too will get faded, and will know the older and more eating griefs which we are helping to neglect. In — George Eliot

It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize that I was fooled into thinking I'd written the story. I hadn't - I had just typed for a long time. So then I have to carve out a story from the 25 or so pages. It's in there somewhere - but I have to find it. I'll then write a third, fourth, and fifth draft, and so on. — David Sedaris

Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain. — John Calvin

The trick is in not minding. — G. Gordon Liddy

Objective evaluations set the foundation that moves leaders to the tipping point ... — Quint Studer

You just wait and see. The lily-livered b*stards in Washington will demobilize. They'll say they've made the world safe for democracy again. The Russians are not such d*mned fools. They'll rebuild; and with modern weapons. — George S. Patton

The angel brought you back."
"Because you asked him to. You could have anything alse in the world, and you asked for me."
"But I dont want anything else in the world. I love you. I would do it again. I would ask for you. — Cassandra Clare

Putting the AR movement directly in opposition to the environmental movement, which should be our natural allies in fighting human arrogance and domination of the planet. — Peter Singer