Alessandro Pavolini Quotes & Sayings

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long. — Charles William Eliot

Now I wonder all the time how you go back after something like that. Whether we can ever be friends again, or if what we had is broken into pieces. Not because of her, but because of me. — Cassandra Clare

In most cases, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple hearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Children are capable of such open rudeness. — Trenton Lee Stewart

In the real world, babysitting is a groovy way for young people to learn responsibility (and earn a little pocket money).
In the Terrorverse, it's a plot device used to kill teenagers. — Seth Grahame-Smith

I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself. — Abbas Kiarostami

My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training. — Robert Vaughn

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. — John Lyly

I imagine that in a closed, hermetic society like the mob, where everybody knows each other, it must be really, really unpleasant to have to kill people. It's the sort of thing you really want to avoid. — Andrew Dominik

I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service. — Charles Edison

Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was rather literary in college - one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.' - and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn't just an epigram - life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all. — F Scott Fitzgerald