Arnobio Florence Quotes & Sayings

Once upon a winter I met a man in the woods The man beckoned me over To see a satchel of goods He offered three wishes I asked for beauty, love, riches And he froze me in stone where I stood. - "The Greedy Ghost of Cypress Pass," common folk song — Marie Lu

One of the great difficulties as you rise up through an organisation is that your prior competencies are exploded and broken apart by the territory you've been promoted into: the field of human identity. — David Whyte

I think one of the dirty little secrets that I try to reveal here is that Washington is not hopelessly divided. It's very interconnected. We're talking about people sort of feeding from the same insider trough, where if you are known as an insider, you are going to get paid and do very, very, very well. — Mark Leibovich

The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships! — Beverly Cleary

They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure. — Helmut Newton

Only a fool walks into the future backward. — Anonymous

That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age. — Paul Hawken

We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity. — Roger Williams

Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.' He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where the midway serves as microcosm, such as in those famous books by Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney and William Lindsay Gresham. — Paul Di Filippo