#si

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#build #long #sit #throne #you

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#cathedral #consistent #gothic #i #important

On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#compassion #youth #age

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life. ↗

— Mo Yan

#circumstances #difficult #difficult circumstances #i #i think

I feel as though I should say something profound, or enact some rite, or trade something to make it official. I want to transfer some trinket which would allow me to say that she's my girl, some kind of currency that proves to people that she likes me back. Something that would permit me to think about her all the time without feeling guilty or helpless or hopelessly far away. I guess I'm just so excited, I want to cage this thing like a tiny red bird so if can't fly away, so it stays the same, so it's still there the next time. For keeps, like a coin in your pocket. Like a peach pit from Mad Jack Lionel's tree. Like scribbled words in a locked suitcase. A bright balloon to tie to your bedpost. And you want to hug it close, hold it, but not so tight it bursts. ↗

— Craig Silvey

#happiness #jasper-jones #young-love #love

For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair. ↗

— Tim Yeo

#conservative #conservative party #equal #first #first time

The next four years, there won't be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It's a naturally Conservative issue. ↗

— Tim Yeo

#climate #climate change #conservative #discussion #four

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#been #clearly #cultural #define #dismissed

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#poets #russia #their #tyrants #worst

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business. ↗

— Lee Kuan Yew

#competitors #deprive #out #outsourcing #putting