Yesternook Quotes & Sayings

What mattered was writing it: the act of words. — Rose Tremain

After living in Smokey Hollow these three months my bearded face was darkened to a tan, and for more than a moment, I couldn't tell what color I was. Black is what I saw and what I expected to see. I grabbed a towel and rubbed to get a clear look. No, I was white. At least my skin was. I had been through so much with my family here, and all I had seen was black faces, that I forgot for a split second that I wasn't black too. For weeks after the flood in the bathroom, I remembered the morning I forgot my skin color. — Peter Jenkins

Freedom, "that terrible word inscribed on the chariot of the storm," is the motivating principle of all revolutions. Without it, justice seems inconceivable to the rebel's mind. There comes a time, however, when justice demands the suspension of freedom. Then terror, on a grand or small scale, makes its appearance to consummate the revolution. Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. But one day nostalgia takes up arms and assumes the responsibility of total guilt; in other words, adopts murder and violence. — Albert Camus

When you are worried about thinking why you can't, you are losing the reasons why you should. — Ameya Agrawal

You should strike at the moon in the water. — Yagyu Munenori

The war brought things to a head, exposing the utter falsity and rottenness of Kautskyism from its very first day. — Karl Kautsky

I shouldn't have been looking at lingerie. It naturally made me think about sexy things. Like kissing. Like Patch. — Becca Fitzpatrick

I ceased even to breathe. It was ridiculous, of course, but you know that ghost-story feeling. — H.G.Wells

It pays to trust God with all and to make no reservation. — Smith Wigglesworth

What worlds are there herein? I'll tell you. In these seas of fragrant waters, numerous as atoms in unspeakably many buddha-fields, rest an equal number of world systems. Each world system also contains an equal number of worlds. Those world systems in the ocean of worlds have various resting places, various shapes and forms, various substances and essences, various locations, various entryways, various adornments, various boundaries, various alignments, various similarities, and various powers of maintenance. — Thomas Cleary

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. — William Ralph Inge