Youshea Quotes & Sayings

Happy are those who live under a discipline which they accept without question, who freely obey the orders of leaders, spiritual or temporal, whose word is fully accepted as unbreakable law; or those who have, by their own methods, arrived at clear and unshakeable convictions about what to do and what to be that brook no possible doubt. I can only say that those who rest on such comfortable beds of dogma are victims of forms of self-induced myopia, blinkers that may make for contentment, but not for understanding of what it is to be human. — Isaiah Berlin

He couldn't jeopardize the saloon because of some silly infatuation with an outlaw. Even one as beautiful as Mariah Ayers. — B. J. Daniels

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse. — H.L. Mencken

Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings. — Rose Tremain

We have to keep the body in good health; we have to take care of what we eat and drink, and what we do. — Swami Vivekananda

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures. — Henry David Thoreau

When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget. — Henry F. Ashurst

The world is progressing, the future is bright and no one can change this general trend of history. We should carry on constant propaganda among the people on the facts of world progress and the bright future ahead so that they will build their confidence in victory. — Mao Zedong

I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flicker of a lamp in a small Bengal village to the chandeliers of Delhi. — Pranab Mukherjee

What is the point of doing anything if there isn't any point? — Sydney Wilhelmy

Who we are' is at least as important as 'what we want to achieve. — Brene Brown

My parents are highly evolved worriers ... If worrying were an Olympic sport, my parents' faces would have graced the Wheaties box a long time ago. — Firoozeh Dumas

Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to because of that. — Jane Gardam

I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps. — John Updike

Saving a letter from an old friend doesn't exist anymore. Everything is texted or emailed. — James Caan