Astuccio Legno Quotes & Sayings

In the absence of proof, all that matters is perception. — Brodi Ashton

What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization? — William Wilberforce

She needed someone to worship; he needed slavish devotion. They became inseparable companions. — Laura Joh Rowland

Thoughts become things? True, but that analysis is not complete - we need to add two more words: thoughts become things through energy. — Ilchi Lee

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, 'here and now,' without any postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!" — W. H. Murray

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness. — George Stillman Hillard

I don't recognize my people anymore. I feel Somalia is lost. There is no Somalia. It is just a name. — Hawa Abdi

But now I understand the gravity of what I was proposing - that a four-year-old child be watchful, prudent, and shrewd, that I curtail your happiness, that you submit to a loss of time. And now when I measure this fear against the boldness that the masters of the galaxy imparted to their own children, I am ashamed. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly. — Mark Twain

Whoever used to hang out here, they must have been pretty tiny," I joked.
Dex turned his flashlight on me. "Um, Iz, pretty sure they weren't standing up," he said, and I blushed. — Rachel Hawkins

Just because we're related, doesn't mean we're family. — Steve Maraboli

I will never censor myself to please anyone. — Natalia Kills

You're going to die soon enough anyway; even if it's a hundred years from now, that's still the blink of a cosmic eye. In the meantime, live like a scientist - even a controversial one with only an ally or two in all the world - and treat life as a grand experiment, blood, sweat, tears and all. Bear in mind that there's no such thing as a failed experiment - only data. — Jesse Bering

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. — John Ruskin