Yes Please Quotes

#1. There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,
is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and a volume which should contain the condensed wisdom of mankind need not have one rhythmless line.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

Sharon Stone

#3. I wasn't one of the dreamers, back then. I was just wrapped up in my private blanket of hurt.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#4. The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home

James Madison

#5. The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.

Jean Cocteau

#6. My wife is a former homicide detective, LAPD. The wonderful thing that I was able to capture is my wife's experiences from human and professional, and how do you deal with some of the atrocities that happen in L.A. and not bring them home.

Ving Rhames

#7. Thin rays of orange creep up Tower Bridge and I realize I have never seen the sunrise from here. I had no idea that it could rise, almost perfectly, between the two towers of the bridge. This new light is a new day, and Timothy Squire and I watch it together.

John Owen Theobald

#8. They say that oppression engenders hate. They are heard on all sides crying hate hate.

Monique Wittig

#9. There was so much testosterone in the air, I felt like I needed a gas mask.

Richelle Mead

#10. And so beneath the weight lay I
And suffered death, but could not die.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#11. You're always a little surprised when something really takes off.

Ron Howard

#12. Punish the pushers and shovers by letting them get ahead.

Marty Rubin

#13. Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which ... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

Alan Greenspan