Acciaio Inossidabile Quotes & Sayings

No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If they had accustomed themselves to a more comfortable style of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it. — Millicent Fawcett

The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions — Miyamoto Musashi

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad. — Neal Stephenson

Have you by chance brought some real British tea? Twining's? Or from Jackson's in Piccadilly? — Anthony Burgess

As I have defined it, love is the antithesis of laziness. Ordinary laziness is a passive failure to love. Some ordinarily lazy people may not lift a finger to extend themselves unless they are compelled to do so. Their being is a manifestation of nonlove; still, they are not evil. — M. Scott Peck

My worst ever car was a green Datsun B210, back when they called it 'Datsun' - now it's 'Nissan.' Very unsexy, unattractive. Girls hated the car. I was embarrassed to even be in it ... but it was my transportation. — Ice Cube

Don't mind Mallory. She's a sweetheart, once you get past the fact that she's a horrible person. — Rick Riordan

Beijing would indeed consider vetoing any American effort to sanction Iran at the Security Council. — Li Zhaoxing

The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs has yet to settle like a miasma of standardization on the English literary scene. But it's beginning to happen. — Will Self

That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest. — Charles Tupper

Without harmony in the State, no military expedition can be undertaken; without harmony in the army, no battle array can be formed. — Sun Tzu

You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to. — Tom Stoppard

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. — Steve Prefontaine

Financially, I'm fine. But it's good to work. I'm not capable of doing nothing. — Anita Pallenberg

...the world kept turning and the Turtle moved. — Terry Pratchett