El Yunque Quotes

#1. The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#2. This is for kids.."
"No, this is for everyone ... though we're kids within ourselves.

Aishah Madadiy

#3. Every hour I spent on manual work, every hour I was humiliated in England or degraded has helped me because that's the same way other people feel in the townships here. People are still walking long distances and are working long hours.

Michael Sata

#4. Every rock is spoon by the Word. Every time I touch a stone, I am touching the Voice of God. Every cell of me is crafted by that artistry. My life is His breath. But we mortals grow numb. We want to feel more. And so we add MSG to our earthly brands of holiness.

N.D. Wilson

#5. Distract me, please

Stephenie Meyer

#6. The real measure of your "wealth" is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#7. We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road.

Satish Kumar

#8. Sometimes you will mistake need for love. Be careful. The road with need is never a fair one, never a good one. Much like the road you must walk down. Beware of the one who needs you.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#9. I don't think you should make so many off-colour jokes about him becoming a cuckold. You're only getting away with it because he doesn't know what it means.' 'That's the beauty of the English language. One can wrap insults inside elegance, like popping anchovies into pastry.

Christopher Fowler

#10. You have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.

Ouida

#11. Once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear.

David Levithan

#12. The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act.

Carroll Quigley