Albertini International Quotes & Sayings

Without wisdom, brilliance is not enough. — Barry Schwartz

The point is that we are among those who cannot get their mouths around all the little Yeses that add up to tacit acceptance of a world run by crackpot realists and subject to blind drift. And that, you see, is something to which we do belong; we belong to those who are still capable of personally rejecting. Our minds are not yet captive. — C. Wright Mills

The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted. — John Dryden

What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil. — George Bernard Shaw

Affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush, waits and waits. Sometimes a life glides away, and finds it still ripening in the shade0 — Charles Dickens

There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in general. And some people, the press just doesn't care about at all. — Nathan Lane

Who among us has not gazed thoughtfully and patiently at a painting of Jackson Pollock and thought "What a piece of crap?" — Rob Long

When you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to "homeland security." — Bruce Springsteen

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead. — Les Brown

I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness. — Anne Lamott

...what has the weight of evidence to one person does not necessarily have the weight of evidence to another. — Mitch Glaser

Yeah, I record on voice memos. I got like 1,000-something memos. If I'm in the middle of something and I can't get it done, I'll jot it down, but I never write a rap out, ever. — Big Sean

many people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. They — John C. Maxwell

Mountains aren't eternal: even the most imposing massifs are smoothed away by weathering in a few hundred million years or less. Plate tectonics makes new ones, and without it, our future would be flat. — Seth Shostak

His impunity thrills me, I mistake it for fearlessness, though years later he will admit to being afraid all the time. — Nick Flynn