Artusi Pellegrino Quotes & Sayings

I have not read far in the statutes of this Commonwealth. It is not profitable reading. They do not always say what is true; and they do not always mean what they say. — Henry David Thoreau

Neither of us wanted to say it first. But our two souls had become one in a realm no one else could venture into. The immortal coil of passion had wrapped around us forever. It had begun with lust and attraction and blossomed into so much more. Fear of rejection kept us from declaring it. — Sherry Soule

Our covetousness will put us under unbelievable bondages — Sunday Adelaja

I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier. — Victor LaValle

I know that my cell phone in Iran ... is bugged, and they listen in, and my emails, I'm sure, are monitored inside Iran. They have my email address; it's not like they can't snoop on it. — Hooman Majd

House payments, kids, career, and the rinse and repeat of life moved in where love and promises had moved out. — Kathryn Perez

Nothing is true, nothing is real except love and our perception of love. — Debasish Mridha

It is better to wake up five hundred Christians than to convert five hundred sinners, for if five hundred Christians really wake up, they will win more than five hundred sinners. — Vance Havner

We fall into the great continuing circle of dancers. Some leave the floor, tired but giddy; others have only just arrived. They are eager to wear their new status as ladies, to be paraded about and lauded until they see themselves with new eyes. The fathers beam at their daughters, thinking them perfect flowers in need of their protection, while the mothers watch from the margins, certain this moment is their doing. We create illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. Adn when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth.
But the girls! Their eyes glow with the fever dream of all they might become. They tell themselves this is the beginning of everything. And who am I to say it isn't? — Libba Bray

Eternal peace is a dream - and not even a beautiful one. — Helmuth Von Moltke The Elder

The secret of all success is to voluntarily or involuntarily teach what you do to others. — Ben Tolosa

There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure. — Virginia Woolf

Left Eye, man ... who else has more personality than Left Eye? — Donell Jones

Who needs enemies when you've got Republican Surrenderists for Obamacare waiting in the wings? — Michelle Malkin

Heck, if anybody told me I was setting a record (strikeouts in a game on July 30, 1933) I'd of got me some more strikeouts. — Dizzy Dean