Abitano Di Quotes & Sayings

What's the good of a home, if you are never in it? — George Grossmith

Luxuries and indulgences were distractions from true greatness, tawdry and ephemeral baubles that dissipated energy that could be directed toward more meaningful and durable accomplishments in the world around him. — Ramez Naam

The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so. — Mahalia Jackson

Law is king of all. — Henry Alford

Every guild and trade has its own ... private patriotism, which makes it resent all rebellion from within and all competition or criticism from without ... Vested Interests. The manufacture of optical glass ... — Aldous Huxley

Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will. — Mikhail Bakunin

The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts. — David Hare

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Earth Day gathered up those strands, and dozens more, and knitted them together in the public consciousness as "environmental" issues. The nation was pretty startled when 20 million people hit the streets. Congress, which had adjourned for the day to go back to its districts, was blown away. — Denis Hayes

We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased the products of work and have been, in turn, debased by them.
(pg. 43, "The Unsettling of America") — Wendell Berry

Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation. — Anna Howard Shaw

Inevitably, if we are to grow and change as adults, we must gradually learn to confront the challenges, paradoxes, problems and painful reality of an insecure world. — James P. Krehbiel

I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched. — Gary Ross

I am the youngest of 14 children, so I rarely got a chance to speak. If I have an opportunity for talking, I talk — Celine Dion

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age. — Jean Paul