Xingjian Yang Quotes

#1. The brutes imagine they are doing me an honour in letting me sit down with them. They don't understand that it's an honour to them not to me!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. Every time you check your phone in company, what you gain is a hit of stimulation, a neurochemical shot, and what you lose is what a friend, teacher, parent, lover, or co-worker just said, meant, felt.

Sherry Turkle

#3. I look at her, then at Tasha, and I feel the wondrous blend of bliss and fear. They
bliss and fear
are constant companions. Rarely does one venture out without the other.

Harlan Coben

#4. If you can, trap me. I'll make a good patient because I was brought up in the environment of authority; it's going to be hard to pull me in though- I've been running all my life, playing truant. If you can capture me I'll buckle down. I'll loathe you in secret and put on a good face.

Derek Jarman

#5. Hans Walter Wolff has suggested that the Sabbath is the great equalizer, for that day is a foretaste of the kingdom when all-great and small-are reckoned to be exactly equal .2' All-masters and slaves-are to engage in this most godlike activity of being at peace.

Walter Brueggemann

#6. The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

Christopher Lasch

#7. I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

Paul Merton

#8. Education is the exchange of one set of prejudices for another.

Marty Rubin

#9. Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.

Anne Bradstreet

#10. A batsman's skill and technique are judged on how he faces the Duke ball in England

Tony Greig

#11. It's so hard coming out of drama school to claim your right to be taken seriously and even get auditions.

Lily James

#12. Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: "She's never coming home." A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone who had ever known me had accepted. But he needed to say it, and she needed to hear him say it.

Alice Sebold

#13. CMS has a track record of successfully overseeing the many contractors our programs depend on to function. Unfortunately, a subset of those contracts for HealthCare.gov have not met expectations.

Marilyn Tavenner

#14. And when I think there are people around me who complain they can't find anything good to read. What nonsense ... every month you and I discover a masterpiece.

Laurence Cosse