Audaci Quotes & Sayings

Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy. — Robert Browning

The public sphere is as consistently based on the law of equality as the private sphere is based on the law of universal difference and differentiation. Equality, in contrast to all that is involved in mere existence, is not given us, but is the result of human organization insofar as it is guided by the principle of justice. We are not born equal; we become equal as members of a group on the strength of our decision to guarantee ourselves mutually equal rights. — Hannah Arendt

The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria ... — Elie Wiesel

The white man has settled like a locust over Africa, and, like the locusts in early morning, cannot take flight for the heaviness of the dew on their wings. But the dew that weights the white man is the money that he makes from our labor. — Doris Lessing

No one knows the origins of their metal coat hangers. — Peter Kay

I started to read as obsessively about Star Wars as I once did about Kant - and still do about behavioral economics and behavioral psychology. — Cass Sunstein

If you think you're an alcoholic, go to Scotland. You're not an alcoholic. These people are such drunken, toothless hillbillies - I've never seen anything like it. People in Scotland drink while they're drinking. — Jay Mohr

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. — Roger Ebert

In marriage never withhold sex because for men sex is the biggest love expression that a woman can give in a committed relationship. — Linda Alfiori

You've got to have a vision. You've got to have a message. — Scott Walker

What have I done?" I whispered.
Jill put her arm around me, but it was Dimitri who spoke.
"What you had to. — Richelle Mead

For when last need to desperation driveth,
Who dareth most he wiseth counsel giveth.
[It., Che spesso avvien che ne' maggior perigli
Son piu audaci gli ottimi consigli.] — Torquato Tasso

We can't look to the world to restore our worth; we're here to restore our worth to the world. The world outside us can reflect our glory, but it cannot create it. It cannot crown us. Only God can crown us, and he already has. — Marianne Williamson

Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself. — Carl Jung

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking. — Robert D. Richardson

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef. — Tom Robbins