Allegrini Wine Quotes & Sayings

Demosthenes, the great Athenian patriot, cried out to his countrymen when they seemed too confused and divided to stand against the tyranny of Macedonia: "In God's name, I beg of you to think." For a long while, most Athenians ridiculed Demosthenes' entreaty: Macedonia was a great way distant, and there was plenty of time. Only at the eleventh hour did the Athenians perceive the truth of his exhortations. And that eleventh hour was too late. So it may be with Americans today. If we are too indolent to think, we might as well surrender to our enemies tomorrow. — Russell Kirk

I promise. I've never been with another woman. I always thought something was wrong with me, but now I know I was always meant to be with you. Please — Aria Cole

Democracy, we now know, is more than periodic elections in some countries, such elections have been used to legitimize essentially authoritarian regimes and deprive large parts of the citizenry of basic rights. — Joseph E. Stiglitz

My most important title is still "mom-in-chief." My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world. — Michelle Obama

What made such a plan seem workable was that for the early pluralists and their multicultural descendants society would have fewer and fewer traditional groups. The kind of pluralist society that Dewey and Kallen envisaged would go beyond rooted ethnic communities. It would become the evolving creation of "free" individual participants, setting goals under scientific direction and having their material interests monitored by a "conductor state." The world as conceived by pluralists was there to be managed and to be made culturally safe for its framers: Eastern and Central European Jews fearful of traditional Gentile mores and the uprooted descendants of New England Calvinists looking for the New Jerusalem under scientific management. — Paul Edward Gottfried

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Roz to Amelia (the house ghost): How considerate of you, after trying to kill me, to see that I don't catch a cold. — Nora Roberts

I love food shows: Anthony Bourdain, Iron Chef, Chopped, you name it. — Donnie Wahlberg

Mass education, because it produces hosts of badly educated people liberated from fatalism, will contribute to instability (p. 123). — Robert D. Kaplan

Something wild can happen to anybody and I caution anybody that walks out on the street, just settle your accounts before you leave the house every day. — Bill Murray

A simple, well-proven surgery can restore sight to millions, and something even simpler, a pair of glasses, can make millions more see. — Thulasiraj Ravilla

The hardest thing about getting publicity is doing it on a budget ... you can hire people to market you but it's hard in this industry when it comes out of pocket. I've found that if the music is awesome, that helps a lot. — MC Lars

Bandara was not an easy place to return to: it could hide from the common worlds whose periphery it inhabited. But Bandara never had, in all its years, completely disappeared. — Janet Morris