"Don't yield! Keep up your courage! The same sun looks down on all of us!"

-- Eiji Yoshikawa

#Yield Quotes #Looks Quotes #Sun Quotes

“What humans want most of all, is to be right. Even if we're being right about our own doom. If we believe there are monsters around the next corner ready to tear us apart, we would literally prefer to be right about the monsters, than to be shown to be wrong in the eyes of others and made to look foolish.”

Source : David Wong (2012). “This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It”, p.20, Macmillan
“Food is one of my favourite things. Though I certainly know lots of people who happen to be happily married who don't have food play the role in it that it plays in my life. And I don't know how they do it, and frankly I feel so bad for them because I just love food and one of my favourite things is asking, "What do we want for dinner? What do we feel like eating?" That wonderful negotiation that goes on several times a week about what "we" feel like.”
“You're not limited by your circumstances only by your imagination.”
“Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.”
“It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.”
“It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.”
“I'm not a believer in the future. The most interesting things are always behind us. I look at everything as archaeology.”
“The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.”

Source : Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.607, Macmillan

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