Yonggan Quotes & Sayings

I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet. — Walter Cronkite

The good news is you survived. The bad news is you're hurt and no one can heal you but yourself. — Clementine Von Radics

Another "chant" we were required to memorize was a list of two-syllable soldierly virtues, Jingshen Da-shu, to be shouted out in the place of "one" and "two": Xiongzhuang! (magnificent), Weiwu! (formidable), Yansu! (serious), Gangzhi! (upright), Anjing! (calm), Jianqiang! (strong), Queshi! (reliable), Sujue! (quick), Chenzhuo! (steady), Rennai! (patient), Jiji! (vigorous), Yonggan! (brave). — T.C. Locke

There are other kinds of damage, to the people in your life, to your sense of who you are and what you can do, to your future — Marya Hornbacher

People might seem to have a perfectly fine life but inside, we don't even know if they've suffered. — Jennifer Gilmore

I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree. — Ted Shackelford

We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust. — Bill Bradley

What was once an open space between law and freedom, one governed by character and truth, is now deserted, so law must now do what character has abandoned. — David F. Wells

You gotta understand: I'm a man with needs that needs fulfilling.
And if you ain't with it, somebody else is willing. — Lord Jamar

Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? The fact is, you ran in '94 and lost. That's why you weren't serving in the Senate with Rick Santorum. The fact is, you had a very bad re-election rating, you dropped out of office, you had been out of state for something like 200 days preparing to run for president. You didn't have this interlude of citizenship while you thought about what you do. You were running for president while you were governor. — Newt Gingrich

Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else. — Patrick Ness

If there is a remedy, then what is the use of frustration? If there is no remedy, then what is the use of frustration? — Santideva

Nice one, Catpiss,' he says. That's not my real name. My name is actually Kantkiss. Kantkiss Neverclean. — The Harvard Lampoon

The more telly you do, the more it feels like a factory. — Kevin Whately