Yahne Quotes

#1. I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.

W.G. Sebald

#2. I may not like everyone but love all. No one is worthy of occupying my heart. You scored a point, so what? Congratulations. You're forgiven!

Assegid Habtewold

#3. What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to amplify it in order to more powerfully activate the same neural mechanisms that would be activated by the original object.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

#4. I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills.

Peter Mandelson

#5. I like to think of myself as the running LT. I like to run up the middle and wear defenses down. It's more exciting in between the tackles.

LaDainian Tomlinson

#6. Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.

Christopher B. Krebs

#7. Hindsight creates the illusion that your life has led you inevitably to the present moment.

Jennifer Egan

#8. I walk the sand alone,
and feel it stirring as I roam,
upon this breathing earth,
where wave on wave begins new birth.
I sense a grand facade,
where colors paint the hand of God.
And in remorseful pain,
I dance the stones of bitter strain.

Craig Froman

#9. And he wonders if that is what people look for in a partner or a friend: the part of themselves that is missing.

Rachel Joyce

#10. If you don't have a cause bigger than yourself, you won't get beyond yourself.

John Frederick Demartini

#11. The tears that had been threatening to overflow finally did, coursing down my cheeks. I wanted to run after him, to take back what I'd said, to beg him to stay, but I'd spent my life running after Mal. Instead, I stood in silence and let him go.

Leigh Bardugo