Yssd Quotes & Sayings

I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke and turning into a stone and falling down into the ground. That did work a little. But in my visualization a plant covered with poison berries would grow out of the stone, whether I wanted it to or not. — Margaret Atwood

Tackling the environment should not be a licence to lecture people, because they have no excuse not to exercise, or eat their fruit and vegetables. Nannying - at least among adults - is likely to be counterproductive. Providing information is empowering; lecturing people is not. So, no excuses, no nannying. — Andrew Lansley

We have always felt the sympathy of the world, but we would prefer the respect of the world to sympathy without respect. — Anwar Sadat

Somewhere along the line I had forgotten to figure out who and where I was. — Cecelia Ahern

He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive. — Benjamin Franklin

My Gran said put a thimble on your finger and it helps you in case you slip with the needle and it goes up, into the brain, and death. — Eddie Izzard