Battistella Family Tree Quotes & Sayings

There's a great op-ed piece by Kurt Johnson, who runs The List Project, that I recommend everyone read. He was talking about how he's been trying to get out of Iraq who were our allies, who are now subject to torture, and their families are being killed because of their alliance to the United States. — Rory Kennedy

The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true. — Dante Alighieri

If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing. — Roger Ebert

To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression.
I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy. — Emil Cioran

I do so much work that I don't have a lot of time for my life! — Leighton Meester

What is the most difficult word for young people to pronounce? It's the word no. When we say no [to what is against God], He will help us to stand by it. He will give us courage. — Billy Graham

When stupidity of today joins with the stupidity of yesterday it becomes a myth; my myth a stupidity glorifies itself. — Thiruman Archunan

She seemed dressed in all of me, stretched across my shame.
All the torment and the pain leaked through and covered me.
I'd do anything to have her to myself.
Just to have her for myself
Now I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do when she makes me sane.
She is everything to me.
The unrequited dream
A song that no one sings.
The unattainable, Shes a myth that I have to believe in
All I need to make it real is one more reason
I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do when she makes me sad. — Slipknot

I think the behavior of the troops has been a huge factor in the rise of the insurgency and in the rise of the anti-American feelings there[in Iraq]. — Yaroslav Trofimov

In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state. — Katha Pollitt

All marriages were a consequence of security, tradition, money and beauty. Love was a chance, a lucky coincidence. Its existence was an after-thought, for more serious matters cemented marriage. — Meghna Pant

A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error. — Rene Daumal

We don't know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. It's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets. — Joel Kinnaman

There is only a difference of proportion of madness between an average man and a mad man; the quality of madness is the same. — Osho

Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident. It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice. Choose to live a life that matters. — Michael Josephson