Yutang Crossword Quotes & Sayings

I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home. — Rebecca McNutt

It is manifest therefore that they who have sovereign power, are immediate rulers of the church under Christ, and all others but subordinate to them. If that were not, but kings should command one thing upon pain of death, and priests another upon pain of damnation, it would be impossible that peace and religion should stand together. — Thomas Hobbes

I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America ... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things. — Amiri Baraka

I'd followed the strange deaths of pro football players for years, sensing something odd going on. — Peter Landesman

The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead
big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun. — Bruce Lee

you will understand when I tell you that this staff is about 75% Jewish

--Letters from Nuremberg, page 135 — Christopher J. Dodd

I've found rumors have much in common with feathers. It's rare that either holds much weight. — Morgan Rhodes

What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet. — James Hansen

I would hate to see the state of my house if I had displeased Amelia under my roof. The servents would revolt. No doubt I'd have gruel for dinner, holes in my shirts, and the most foul-smelling tallow candles they could find. — Kristi Ann Hunter

You know Lincoln's famous remark about "God must have loved the common people, because he made so many of them?" Well, you are not going to get people's votes nowadays by calling 'em common. Lincoln might have said it, but I bet it was not until after he was elected. — Will Rogers

Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must study it, and learn the art, and exercise patience and sympathy and skill to bring the multitude of opinions and wishes of self-governing people into such order that some prevailing opinion may be expressed and peaceably accepted. Otherwise, confusion will result either in dictatorship or anarchy. The principal ground of reproach against any American citizen should be that he is not a politician. Everyone ought to be, as Lincoln was. — Elihu Root

The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it. — Anatole France

To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry. — John Ciardi