Ascanio Trombetti Quotes & Sayings

Have you ever been in a temple and seen men kneeling silently, reverently, their souls raised to the greatest height they can reach? To the height where they know they are clean, and clear, and perfect? When their spirit is the end and the reason of all things? Then have you wondered why that has to exist only in a temple? Why men can't carry it also into their lives? Why, if they can know the height, they can still want to live less than the highest? That's what we want to live, you and I. — Ayn Rand

I can't imagine any guy that gets to hold you in his arms ever wanting to let you go Tink. — Emma L. Smith

Dare to be wrong and to dream. — Friedrich Schiller

That has to be the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me in my whole life. — Charles M. Schulz

For a quart of Ale is a dish for a king. — William Shakespeare

The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is. — Bobby Fischer

Hospitality has always been a potent political weapon. Moses used it like a master. Coupled with his overpowering personality, a buffet often did as much for a proposal as a bribe. — Robert A. Caro

An unjust peace is better than a just war. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity. — Anton Chekhov

It makes you feel sort of cheap and titchy. Like it's looking down at you, saying, I'm Canterbury Cathedral, who the hell are you? — Graham Swift

Madame Bovary is myself. — Gustave Flaubert

Enjoy the war,' read the graffiti left on Berlin's walls. 'The peace will be terrible. — Andrei Cherny

We learn to appreciate what we achieve, no matter how small the achievement, because we do it ourselves. - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live — Rachele Baker

It seems to me that had I not known Dostoevsky or Nietzsche or Freud or X or Z, I should have thought just as I did, and that I found in them rather an authorization than an awakening. Above all, they taught me to cease doubting, to cease fearing my thoughts, and to let those thoughts lead me to those lands that were not uninhabitable because after all I found them already there . — Andre Gide