Zou Yan Quotes & Sayings

After all, didn't everyone deserve happiness? Even men who'd killed. If they repented and acknowledged their sins, wasn't it my job as a human being to help him on the road to recover? — Pepper Winters

Each civilization may choose one of two roads to travel, that is, either fret itself to death, or pet itself to death. And in the course of doing one or the other, it eats its way into the Universe, turning cinders and flinders of stars into toilet seats, pegs, gears, cigarette holders and pillowcases, and it does this because, unable to fathom the Universe, it seeks to change that Fathomlessness into Something Fathomable. — Stanislaw Lem

Organizations like the CIA and the FBI are still kind of supermen, kind of SS troops: We're blond and the best and everyone else should be incinerated. They don't know right from wrong. That's what makes a satire of these government bureaus really funny. — Mel Brooks

My own view on capital punishment is that it is morally justified, but that the government is often so inept and corrupt that innocent people might die as a result. Thus, I personally oppose capital punishment. — Ed Crane

Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes. — David Levithan

Psychologists tell us that in order to learn from experience, two ingredients are necessary: frequent practice and immediate feedback. — Richard H. Thaler

We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste! — Andre Aciman

There was a lot of feeling that with an African-American president, life on the South Side of Chicago would be radically different. — Mark Kirk

Freeze when you are angry: your brain needs time to cleanse the anger! — Ravi Samuel

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion. — Alice Duer Miller

They say 15 million people are watching the show, but what does that mean, you know? It's not until I'm accosted on the street that I understand! — America Ferrera

Golf is like 99.9 percent of my life, and then there's school. I don't get much time to go out with my friends. — Lydia Ko

Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
(Journal entry, 14 October 1922) — Katherine Mansfield

I'd made pretty clear to the people at Paramount and Dreamworks that, if they wanted Lemony Snicket to comment, he would be completely horrified by the entire film. And as long as they understood that, it was okay. I'm not much of a fan of DVD commentaries myself, so this was my way of getting revenge, in a sense, for all the puffed-up directors and stars who talk endlessly about the self-aggrandizing minutiae of making a movie. — Daniel Handler