Youm Quotes & Sayings

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. — George W. Bush

Reunion with the mother is a siren call haunting our imagination. Once there was bliss, and now there is struggle. Dim memories of life before the traumatic separation of birth may be the source of Arcadian fantasies of a lost golden age. — Camille Paglia

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered? — Woody Allen

Astrology fell into the class of a fake lie ... and not worth the efforts of the debunking engine Cicero had been born with in place of a brain. Cicero's capacities were reserved for lies that mattered. Ideology, though that word was yet unknown to him: the veil of sustaining fiction that drove the world, what people needed to believe. This, Cicero wished to unmask and unmake, decry and destroy. (p. 65) — Jonathan Lethem

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. — Thomas Fuller

I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery. — Joan Rivers

When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said. — Noam Chomsky

On this subject it is striking to note how many individuals pursue, outside of their own professions and with a kind of rebellious delight, hobbies that are no more than personalized forms of work. This suggests that one of the hidden desires of humanity, provoked by the inward clamor of unused potentialities, is the dream of work in freedom. — Robert Grudin

I have no magic formula. The only way I know to win is through hard work. — Don Shula