Avvenire Giornalisti Quotes & Sayings

When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is — Gautama Buddha

I'm often asked the same question: What in your work comes from your own culture? As if I have a recipe and I can actually isolate the Arab ingredient, the woman ingredient, the Palestinian ingredient. People often expect tidy definitions of otherness, as if identity is something fixed and easily definable. — Mona Hatoum

Sure it's true that some give others their trust and heart while others understand it wrong, because some they don't know their position in the trust. — Jan Jansen

It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist. — Murray N. Rothbard

The hypothesis that life has developed from inorganic matter is, at present, still an article of faith. — J. W. N. Sullivan

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things. — Lawrence G. Lovasik

If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire,
thinnerthan the paper on which it is printed,
then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them. — Henry David Thoreau

Understanding begets empathy and compassion even for the meanest beggar - Oromis — Christopher Paolini

God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him — Francois Fenelon

Why, Jack-off ... You actually have a sense of humor! You should share that playful side more often. Guys really go for it. — Lorelei James

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy. — Carter Burwell

Gentlemen, for the first 60 feet that was a hell of a pitch. — Warren Spahn

My parents used to say to me to save. Always save. They also told me to invest in properties and to never go over your monthly allowance. — Amy Childs

I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it by the most uninterrupted career of conquests. — George Washington

Better planning guarantees success; ask anyone who has planned a one day event like a wedding. How much planning should you therefore put in the kind of life you want to succeed at? — Archibald Marwizi