Aureliano Toso Quotes & Sayings

If he desired an empire, he achieved it with me, for I would carve out every skin in my body and hand it over as states to his greater nation. — Jeni Dhodary

I felt sorry that he had suffered so long in the hospital, sorry that even in his last minutes our mindless technology had so rudely interrupted his transition — Abraham Verghese

Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life. — Fernand Braudel

Thus to forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, that greatest good, communal harmony that enhances the humanity and personhood of all in the community. — Desmond Tutu

He explained that unlike our other classes in the program, research was all about prediction and control. I was smitten. You mean that rather than leaning and holding, I could spend my career predicting and controlling? I had found my calling. — Brene Brown

The right to privacy ... is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. — Harry A. Blackmun