Yokomine Method Quotes & Sayings

My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics. — Arlen Specter

It takes very little to make us [women] happy, and more than is contained in heaven and earth to keep us that way — Joseph Heller

For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die. — Anne Lamott

Think of horse races. People like to bet on the one with three legs and a wheeze.They don't bet on that one because they think it will win, but because they can see how very glorious it would be if it were to win — Natasha Pulley

A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress. — Mahatma Gandhi

Therefore, I think that in the celebration of the 50 years of the present reign, there must be research on the changes that the country has undergone, and in the future, it could be used as a lesson for our future actions. — Bhumibol Adulyadej

We were so little when you took away all our sins. — Maggie Stiefvater

I realized my predicament early in my First Year. We don't say "Freshman" or "Senior" etc. at UVA because Mr. Jefferson felt that education is a lifelong process — Tina Fey

Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And wouldn't it be great if every child heard good speech and received thoughtful answers to their questions instead of 'be quiet' or 'go to bed'? — Ernest L. Boyer

[E]ven in getting the wonderful things we long for, we tend to live in want of something more[.] — Steve Hagen

If our minds and hearts are not filled with God's truth, something else will take His place: cynicism, occultism, false religions and philosophies, drugs - the list is endless. — Billy Graham

Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class. — Walter Huston

A contemptible person, but ready to face suffering! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny. — Quentin Crisp