Yianna Long Torso Quotes

#1. Americans prefer to isolate villains who despoil a preexisting innocence, rather than admit that there might not have been any innocence there in the first place.

Rick Perlstein

#2. Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tube by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at drying up the water, constantly inventing new, expensive, and refined methods of drying up water. Somebody should teach them how to close the tap.

Denis Parsons Burkitt

#3. The lies of centuries, the lies of love,
the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christ
will be your bedmates and tombstones
in a death that will never end.

Charles Bukowski

#4. It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.

Joe Orton

#5. Followers of Jesus don't so much see different things from anyone else as they see the same things differently.

Leonard Sweet

#6. No sane man will dance.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#7. You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

John Malkovich

#8. You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject.

Carolyn Kizer

#9. If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent.

Eula Biss

#10. I have come to think that's where Heaven is, a place in the memories of other where our best selves live

Christina Baker Kline

#11. Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

Khaled Hosseini