Alberico Gentili Quotes & Sayings

For eight years I dreamed of fire. Trees ignited as I passed them; oceans burned. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity. — Rachel Klein

You can use reading as a food for the ego. It is very subtle. You can become knowledgeable; then it is dangerous and harmful. Then you are poisoning yourself, because knowledge is not knowing, knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom has nothing to do with knowledge. Wisdom can exist in total ignorance also. If you use reading just as a food for the mind, to increase your memory, then you are in a wrong direction. But reading can be used in a different way; then reading is as beautiful as anything else in life — Osho

Israel criticizes Hitler a lot, so do we, but they've done something very similar, even worse, than what the Nazis did. — Hugo Chavez

No one should notice how your eyes are done or the color of your eyeshadow. They should just notice you and notice that you're beautiful, that you have beautiful eyes. — Diane Von Furstenberg

Right, wrong, good, bad, heaven, hell. I think that is the theme of my life. I think you have to know both in order to honestly choose one. So I'm familiar with both sides of the fence. — DMX

I'll tell you the truth, everything you hear is a lie. — Jeff Shear

Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces. — Harper Lee

Of tobacco and its consequences, I will say nothing but that the practice is at too bad a pass to leave hope that anything that could be said in books would work a cure. If the floors of boarding-houses, and the decks of steam-boats, and the carpets of the Capitol, do not sicken the Americans into a reform; if the warnings of physicians are of no avail, what remains to be said? I dismiss the nauseous subject. — Harriet Martineau

There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness, nothing more. — Emily Giffin

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early. — Christopher Hitchens

Are we going to give up, or are we going to be the kind of people who stand up and do what it takes, even if we don't feel like doing it? — Rory Vaden

There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too. — Laurence J. Peter

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side. — Janine Di Giovanni

And they did have fun, though it was of different kind now. All that yearning and passion had been replaced by a steady pulse of pleasure and satisfaction and occasional irritation, and this seemed to be a happy exchange; if there had been moments in her life when she had been more elated, there had never been a time when things had been more constant. — David Nicholls