Barbara Alberti Quotes & Sayings

The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become. — Elie Wiesel

You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over. — Chuck Hagel

Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. — Anonymous

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.
Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart. — Michael Ende

Around him, the room was redolent of the unknown herb he'd found, green and fresh and yet somehow familiar, like something he hadn't known he had liked until it had appeared, suddenly and unexpectedly, in his life. — Hanya Yanagihara

We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains perceptible to us only that of the stone, which is not shared by us; and, because of this, sense shows it as by a straight line, always parallel to the tower, which is built upright and perpendicular upon the terrestrial surface. — Galileo Galilei

Her black brows, her reddish-tawny hair and the pure red and white of her complexion defied the searching decomposing radiance: she might have been some fabled creature whose home was in a beam of light. — Edith Wharton

I need a lot of black on my eyes and a little shot of vodka to be brave, because you're beautiful when you relax. — Carine Roitfeld

You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language? — Jorge Luis Borges