Bassani Quotes & Sayings

The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society. — Peter Drucker

Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop. — Jane Goodall

Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal- to real possibility? This may not seem to be the choice, but it is: complete self effacement, surrender to the "others", disavowal of any personal dignity and freedom-on the one hand; and freedom and independence, movement away from the others, extrication of oneself from the binding links of family and social duties-on the other hand. This is the choice that the depressed person actually faces. — Ernest Becker

And the moment you care that much, a man has you. He owns a little piece of your soul, and he can beat you to death with it. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I have been struggling to find my way back into my body my whole life. — Eve Ensler

Even in a city as small as Ferrara, you can manage, if you like, to disappear for years and years, one from another, living side by side like the dead — Giorgio Bassani

Many children fully realize their parents see them as astonishing creatures and incorporate that into their daily presentations. That is, they throw their stuff on the floor because if you are truly amazing you can pretty much do what you want. Right? — Bill O'Reilly

The color of the emitted light depends on the relative heights of the starting and ending energy levels. A crash between closely spaced levels (such as two and one) releases a pulse of low-energy reddish light, while a crash between more widely spaced levels (say, five and two) releases high-energy purple light. — Sam Kean

Her brain darted up and down; it grew pliant and strong. Her conclusion was that any human being lies nearer to the unseen than any organization, and from this she never varied. — E. M. Forster

If he was right, here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamond - bringing after it a conspiracy of living rogues, set loose on us by the vengeance of a dead man. — Wilkie Collins

With any "new" form of music, the originators are usually good bands that have good music and good ideas, like Nirvana. But then you get all the followers and wannabes, bands like Silverchair, etc ... and that really sucks. — John Gallagher Jr.

Are you going to kick somebody's ass?
I don't know. Maybe.
Well, I'm not going to worry. I've watched you spar with that martial arts dummy in the backyard lots of times, and you always win.
Thanks, buddy. I'll see you soon. — Kevin Hearne

What I am doing is not acting. I am playing myself. — Charlotte Rampling

Ibn Bassani, a Sufi mystic, all his life prayed, asking God to make his body the size of hell and send him there in the place of the world. I see my Lord Christ having done that for humanity. — Paul-Gordon Chandler

In life, if one wants seriously to understand how the world works, he must die at least once. — Giorgio Bassani

She could sense it very clearly: for me, no less than for her, the past counted far more than the present, remembering something far more than possessing it. Compared to memory, every possession can only ever seem disappointing, banal, inadequate ... She understood me so well! My anxiety that the present 'immediately' turned into the past so that I could love it and dream about it at leisure was just like hers, was identical. It was 'our' vice, this: to go forwards with our heads forever turned back. — Giorgio Bassani

Zombies are the proletariat. Long live the workers! — Justine Larbalestier

Things die, too, you know. And so, if they too have to die, well there it is, it is so much better to let them go — Giorgio Bassani

I never drank anything stronger than beer before I was twelve. — W.C. Fields