Attimi Blog Quotes & Sayings

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses. — Plutarch

We believe that people should wait their time, and people should be able to be accepted here - over a million a year - in an orderly process, not a disorderly process, and that we should not be rewarding those who violate the law, and making even harder for those who try to comply with the law. — Jeff Sessions

Though the meek shall inherit the earth, but don't forget:
The poor are the ones who inherit the debt. — Kelvin Mercer

I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again. — John Steinbeck

Professor Gruenfeld was able to explain the price women pay for success: "Our entrenched cultural ideas associate men with leadership qualities and women with nurturing qualities and put women in a double blind," she said. "We believe not only that women are nurturing, but that they *should* be nurturing above all else. When a woman does anything that signals she might not be nice first and foremost, it creates a negative impression and makes us uncomfortable. — Sheryl Sandberg

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'. — John Lennon

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment. — Charlie Chaplin

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. — Aldous Huxley

In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable. — Alexis Carrel

George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil. — Patton Oswalt

A student of Syrian affairs soon becomes used to paradox. A comparatively small country, narrowly chauvinistic and jealous of its national sovereignty, Syria is nevertheless the repository, and has often been the origin, of oecumenical and transcendental ideas about Arab unity. Its society is one of the most heterogeneous in the Middle East and yet its leaders have been the proponents of a radical integrative political movement: Arab Nationalism. It has kindly and hospitable inhabitants, but it is also a police state where a man can be locked up indefinitely without a trial. Your Syrian friends are your friends for life, but a curious current of xenophobia runs through the country. Syrians love culture and natural beauty, but the ugliness of many Syrians towns and their architecture has to be seen to be believed. — David Roberts

Not only is it possible to do lean startup in federal government, but it's the most effective way to drive change in the federal government. — Todd Park

And she had discovered the best reason, the one that trumps all others: She did it because she liked the way it made her feel. Is — Jonathan Raymond

To operate a machine one must operate like a machine. Using a machine to do what we cannot do, we find we must do what the machine does. — James P. Carse

Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up. — E.W. Howe