Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.


Philip Yancey

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FRED YANCEY
A moment comes in war when the last line must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold dear...
RICK YANCEY
I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We hav...
RICK YANCEY
People die. Love endures.
RICK YANCEY
And I open to him, a flower to the rain.
RICK YANCEY
You know how we tell the good guys from the bad guys? The bad guys shoot at us."

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RICK YANCEY
I want to learn from them. I want to do what I can to make a difference.
JANAY YANCEY
I think that will be amazing. It's always been a dream of mine to play big time volleyball.
JANAY YANCEY
I love the fact that they have a new coach. We just clicked automatically. (Coach Stubbs) was a frie...
JANAY YANCEY
It's great. I set a goal for myself and I reached it. Now I've got to set a new one and keep on goin...
JANAY YANCEY
I chose the school that I though would be best for me. There were a lot of different things between ...
JANAY YANCEY
But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Fallin...
RICK YANCEY
Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.
RICK YANCEY
The night wears on; the fire dwindles; the wind shifts and my heart aches with nostalgia - summer ca...
RICK YANCEY
Onto his stomach. Then knees. Then hands. His elbows quivered, his wrists threatened to buckle under...
RICK YANCEY
Love is forever. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be love. The world is beautiful. If it wasn't, it wouldn'...
RICK YANCEY
That’s the cost. That’s the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans,...
RICK YANCEY
We're looking forward to getting to the championship game, but our thoughts will be about winning (t...
WAYNE YANCEY
You've got to give Carl Junction a lot of credit. They came out and kept getting after us.
YANCEY LITTLE
Our hearts, the war.
Her body, the battlefield.
RICK YANCEY
There is a light that glimmers along the darkening edge of an infinite horizon. In that light the he...
RICK YANCEY
Are pervs only pervs if you don't find them attractive?
RICK YANCEY
She's hurt and still imagines I'd worry about him for even a second ? I touch her shoulder. Her touc...
RICK YANCEY
If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?
RICK YANCEY
Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.
PHILIP TREACY
Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them.
PHILIP TREACY
I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis&...
PHILIP GREEN
I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.
PHILIP GREEN
You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds ...
PHILIP GREEN
I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I...
PHILIP GREEN
You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.
PHILIP GREEN
They already know all about brands... but what 16- and 17-year-olds won't necessarily have is ex...
PHILIP GREEN
Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
PHILIP SIDNEY
I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.
PHILIP GREEN
Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.
PHILIP TREACY
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
PHILIP MASSINGER
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a v...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO
Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movi...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO
Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species...
PHILIP ROTH
Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion
PHILIP WYLIE
All this, and Heaven too!
PHILIP HENRY
Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what ...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is mos...
PHILIP SIDNEY