Baratti Quotes & Sayings

I knew maps of the sea floor, maps that depict weaknesses in the shield of the earth, charts painted on skin that contain the various routes of the Crusades. So — Michael Ondaatje

The Stoics define wisdom to be conducted by reason, and folly nothing else but the being hurried by passion, lest our life should otherwise have been too dull and inactive, that creator, who out of clay first tempered and made us up, put into the composition of our humanity more than a pound of passions to an ounce of reason; and reason he confined within the narrow cells of the brain, whereas he left passions the whole body to
range in.
Farther, he set up two sturdy champions to stand
perpetually on guard, that reason might make no assault,
surprise, nor inroad ; anger, which keeps its station in
the fortress of the heart ; and lust, which like the signs
Virgo and Scorpio, rules the appetites and passions. — Desiderius Erasmus

I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms. — Daryl Hannah

It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said. — David Letterman

The homeland might be lacking snakes, but it held its share of venom. — Dorien Kelly

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge. — Giancarlo Esposito

You know, it's amazing. I don't even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and it got stolen last year. So I've got to buy another one of those, I suppose. I can treat myself to that. — Michael Fassbender

I know my own heart to be entirely English. — Princess Anne

Once Michigan stood proud. In addition to GM, Ford and Chrysler, it was home base for the United Auto Workers, a powerful escalator transporting hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers into America's middle class. — Kevin O'Leary

Peter Pan is perhaps the most important thing, to me, that I have ever done in theater. — Mary Martin

The most noticeable weakness of Congressmen is their timidity. They fear the use to be made of their "record." They are afraid ofmaking enemies. They do not vote according to their convictions from fear of consequences. — Rutherford B. Hayes

Everybody picks up on the sensational things, but no one really gets it. — GG Allin