Yumru Quotes & Sayings

I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another. — Stephen Daldry

I've not had to ask permission from Geraldine to take the job. I'm one of the few men in this life who are not under the thumb. I'm stronger than that. Did she want me out of the house? Listen, she's wanted me out of the house for the past 27 years and has often asked me not to come back again. But I always show up, and really, she can't do without me, because I'm brilliant. — Martin O'Neill

I'm a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I discovered love. — Meg Rosoff

As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature. [This] clearly indicates the true place of man in nature, but it dissipates the prevalent illusion of man's supreme importance and the arrogance with which he sets himself apart from the illimitable universe and exalts himself to the position of its most valuable element. — Ernst Haeckel

If politicians would think more they would act less. — George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax

but statistics requires thinking about many things at once, which is something that System 1 is not designed to do. — Daniel Kahneman

The immortal gods, the deities will rise, they will fall but none will live beyond the wall. Prometheus, knows love & saves them all. — Truth Devour

People will be sentenced in accordance with their deeds ... God's justice is proportional. There is not exactly the same justice for everyone who refuses the mercy of God. — J.P. Moreland

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories. — Karen Russell

Countries are stronger and more prosperous when the voices and opinions of all their citizens can be heard. — Michelle Obama

In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant. — Ann Patchett

The angels stand between us and God, but they are translucent, even transparent, and they beckon us to penetrate their luminosity. — Peter Wilson

That which is produced with intention has passed over from non-existence to existence. — Maimonides

lying on "mattress graves. — Christopher Hitchens