Ayes Quotes

#1. Tell me a story,' demanded Fireflyer.
'Why? Do you eat them, too, then?'
'Only the ohs and ayes and ees and oos. The Kays are too spikey and the zeds are too buzzzy and the ones with the dots get stuck in your teeth and the esses sometimes slide down inside your vest and tickle.

Geraldine McCaughrean

#2. The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.

Edward FitzGerald

#3. At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed.

Maile Meloy

#4. I don't read "letters" sections of magazines, but I'll read anyone's blog post about me.

Joel Stein

#5. Surely we all dealt with and reconciled ourselves to a life many of whose features were out of our control. It was part of living in a world full of other people with other interests.

David Foster Wallace

#6. Being human is a divine gift. It is also not necessary that we overcome all our sins and become saints.We need to realize that we are born imperfect and will remain so until death.

Gian Kumar

#7. Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.

Hippocrates

#8. The buckets emptied quickly, and men from different squads took turns bringing water from the gully that lay towards the city, where, in the feeble shade of emaciated mulberries, a muddy stream lived out its last days in the diabolical heat.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#9. Instead of rebelling against the idea of authority, you honor your own inner authority, along with others' wisdom that resonates with you.

Lisa Marie Selow

#10. George H. W. Bush may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ducts of a Sicilian grandmother.

Christopher Buckley

#11. Stop now and always wonder. Press forward and tap the wonder.

Gina Greenlee

#12. We always want to do things the way we like, that's why we never change.

Marina Abramovic

#13. Finding mechanisms for putting carbon back into landscapes enhances biodiversity. More biodiverse ecosystems store more carbon, more securely and are more resilient to the impacts of climate change.

Will Steffen

#14. War's balance will prevail.

Janet Morris