New Yorker Profiles Quotes

#1. You can't speak life to others if you don't know how to speak life to yourself. Dead leaves can't breathe.

Kemi Sogunle

#2. We feel no isolation. But, having said that, I want to emphasise in particular that we do not want to go to extremes and abandon the European and American directions in our foreign economic cooperation.

Sergei Lavrov

#3. I always say that teenagers are the first to know if you're pandering to them.

Sarah Dessen

#4. Make account that thou hast done nothing, and then thou hast done all. For if, being sinners, when we account ourselves to be what we are, we become righteous, as indeed the Publican did; how much more, when being righteous we account ourselves to be sinners.

Saint John Chrysostom

#5. Light is supposed to be reasuring. You learn that when you're very young. It defeats the bad things creeping around in your room.
Every Parent knows the magic gesture chases the monesters away.

Mike A. Lancaster

#6. More than anything, it's my son's smile and love that makes me light up!

Amber Valletta

#7. Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. How can I believe you?"

"You can't," says Pigpen. "But I'm not seeing your other options.

Katie McGarry

#9. An idealistic lover is a blind lover, and therefore a true lover; a pragmatic lover is a sighted lover, and therefore a false lover.

Kedar Joshi

#10. I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me.

Benjamin Franklin

#11. Sometimes the ATP puts a lot of pressure on the players and sometimes you get injured because you play on a dangerous surface. Nothing happens, no one pays for that.

David Nalbandian

#12. When things get too much for me, I put a wild-flower book and a couple of sandwiches in my pockets and go down to the South Shore of Staten Island and wander around awhile in one of the old cemeteries down there. (Mr Hunter's Grave, 1956)

Joseph Mitchell