Abbiamo Quotes & Sayings

For in this world, marked by sin, the gravitational pull of our lives is weighted by the chains of the "I" and the "self." These chains must be broken to free us for a new love that places us in another gravitational field where we can enter new life. — Pope Benedict XVI

Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the slow falling away of moral opprobrium from our memory of Hitler. In another fifty years we may well find ourselves weighed down by a second monstrous dream of pure grandeur to match that of the Emperor. Two men who dared. Two men who were adored. Two men who led with brilliance. Two men who administered fairly and efficiently. Two men who were modest in their own needs but surrounded by lesser beings who profited from their situation and came between the Hero and the people. — John Ralston Saul

You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is a dream. — Erin Morgenstern

I noticed that I used to go to second hand shops and flea markets and find funny, cute things, but now I go into those stores, and I think, This is dead people's stuff. This is all, like, somebody cleaned out their parents' house, and I don't want any of it. If I didn't want it from my parents, I don't want it from your parents. — Roz Chast

If Dulles could use a person, that person was somehow real for him. If not, that person didn't exist. — David Talbot

What would become of me if I was never truly seen again? - Joanna — Vicki Pettersson

She'd worry about it later. For now, she had an appointment with a homicidal godlet. — Diana Pharaoh Francis

I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read. — Astrid Lindgren

I have two dogs. If I had retarded children, I'd be a hero. And yet, the dogs are pretty much the same thing. — Bill Maher