Barbarinos Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself. — William James

That's it. Keep that edge. Fight like there's no tomorrow. — Henry V. O'Neil

It was Napoleon who said that one spy in the right place was worth twenty thousand men in the field. He was speaking of his own spy, Schul-meister, a man of amazing courage, skill, and loyalty. But when the time came to reward Schulmeister for his services it was the same Napoleon who refused him the Legion of Honor for which he had been recommended, and the same Napoleon who commented that money was the only suitable reward for — Eric Ambler

We must be true to each other. — Lucy Stone

Men's and nations' finest hour consist of those moments when extraordinary challenge is met by extraordinary response. Hence in those darkest hours, we must light our individual candles rather than vying with others to call attention to the enveloping darkness. Our indignation about injustice should lead to illumination, for if it does not, we are only adding to the despair-and the moment of gravest danger is when there is so little light that darkness seems normal! — Neal A. Maxwell

Snakes and bastards! — M.C. Beaton

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone. — Amy Tan

Love is not a justification for war. Anyone who uses it as such doesn't know squat about being human. — Cecily White

Don't say "intimate relations." "Happy Naked Fun Time?" Gabriel suggested. "Exactly." I nodded. — Molly Harper

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will. — Stephen Ambrose

Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist. — Stanley Milgram

I think when we don't know what to do it's wise to do nothing. Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds and breathe deeply. — Maya Angelou

You can't put too much spin on a miracle. — Mark Twain