Baldasso Cortese Quotes & Sayings

I'm a fastidious bookman and have never liked reading books with library markings or other messy defects. — Larry McMurtry

In my opinion, if you really want to know, half of the nastiness in the world is stirred up by people who aren't using their true egos. — J.D. Salinger

A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West. — Jane Hamilton

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. — Bohdi Sanders

To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims. — Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

A man in chains need not be a slave. If he has pride and self-respect he is a free man though a prisoner, and a constant danger to his jailers. Conversely, a slave who escapes is not a free man, but a runaway slave who may be caught and returned to servitude. A slave is one who accepts the identity ascribed to him by a master: You are an inferior and unworthy person and so will remain, and therefore must serve me with obedience and humility. — Allen Wheelis

I will bring you a whole person and you will bring me a whole person and we will have us twice as much of love and everything. — Mari Evans

If you can laugh your way through life, you can have a good time as you're going through the sometimes troubling time that we have in our lives. — Mehmet Oz

We're not talking about an elite art form from the price point of view. We have a building in L.A. that is incredibly open, exciting, inviting, and all that, and there's no reason for this music not to be part of everybody's everyday life. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

He claimed to be a Marxist, the only one of his claims I believed. He had that Marxist passion for oysters and good Sancerre, and that Marxist paralysis when the waiter brought the check. Already it's obvious how much the Communists got wrong, overbetting on human high-mindedness, lowballing human desire. — Francine Prose

May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home. — Robert Jordan

The young man named Peter took her hand and led her into the starship. The door closed behind them. A moment later, the starship disappeared. — Anonymous

Mortals are odd creatures in that sense - flawed yet hopeful. One can study them through millennia and still get nowhere near full understanding of their nature. — Hayden Thorne

A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the wildfire reduced them to no more than candles in a burning house, their orange and scarlet pennons fluttering insignificantly against the jade holocaust. — George R R Martin

Along 4 Mile Run, there was a nice woods down in front of the house. I used to run around there. — Jim Fowler