Yanek Quotes

#1. Your parents, Oskar and Mina. They are dead and gone now, Yanek, and we would grieve them if we could. But we have only one purpose now: survive. Survive at all costs, Yanek. We cannot let these monsters tear us from the pages of the world.

Alan Gratz

#2. Brod's life was a slow realisation that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be happy and honest at the same time.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#3. There is a broad movement that has been holding companies accountable on human rights for a long time.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#4. I wanted to be understood. As a human-being, and as a writer. That meant getting to (truly) know myself- away from the opinions, beliefs, assumptions, criticism, and judgement of others. It meant re-learning language... to speak concisely. It meant learning the language of my heart and soul.

Cheri Bauer

#5. In the old days, a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it's seen as much more of an opportunity than a sellout, as a way to find fans who wouldn't have ordinarily come across their genre of music.

Alexandra Patsavas

#6. Apparently it was very lucrative to be a vampire.

Lara Adrian

#7. As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing,never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the shipwright; and she is but one craft in a Milky-Way fleet, of which God is the Lord High Admiral.

Herman Melville

#8. We should put away the militaristic outlook. The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.

Akbar Ganji

#9. Mind is everything, there is nothing else as far as your subjective reality is concerned. Everything else outside this subjective reality is irrelevant to biological life.

Abhijit Naskar

#10. There are no elegant potatoes.

Kathleen Tessaro

#11. My father said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests.

Maria Goeppert-Mayer

#12. To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

Theodore Dalrymple

#13. Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Bruce Lee