quotes about Yew

last updated: November 28, 2023

KuanÂ Yew, I can never trust you as a politician.
-- Tunku Abdul Rahman

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My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.
-- William Blake

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Reptilian green the wrinkled throat, Green as a bough of yew the beard; He bent his head, and so I smote
-- Yvor Winters

Source : Yvor Winters (1960). “Collected poems”

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“Segmented killing and hatred will only stop when we enlarge our personal, national, and international circles of concern to include all six billion people on this planet: not just the white ones, Christian ones, American ones, female ones, or any ones. Simply put: every one.”
“Love doesn't just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it... Simply put: Love does!”
“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”

Source : Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking
“Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.”
“Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country to practice this barbaric punishment.”

Source : Antoinette Bosco (2001). “Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty”
“It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.”
“Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.”

Source : "Scary Stuff, Kids! Connie Britton and Dylan McDermott Talk American Horror Story!". eclipsemagazine.com. November 1, 2011.
“Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldnt be only for the rich.”
“If the believers in liberty wish the principles of liberty taught, let them never intrust that instruction to any government; for the nature of government is to become a thing apart, an institution existing for its own sake, preying upon the people, and teaching whatever will tend to keep it secure in its seat.”

Source : Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.96, SUNY Press
“Why do I feel you hear these prayers of mine, when so many ought to be ahead of me in line?”