Beltramini Roberto Quotes & Sayings

I wrestled through many sleepless nights after God became real to me. I can only describe this period of my life as 2 years of mental agony. — C.L. Cagan

It is funny the things that run through your mind when you're sitting in your underpants in front of a pair of strangers. — David Sedaris

Down the avenue of trees I can see a spot of sunlight. I'm trying so hard to get there. — Penelope Wilcock

A ... difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to be seen in their evolution. In the natural sciences both theories and descriptive systems grow by adaptation to the increasing knowledge and experience of the scientists. In the social sciences, systems often issue fully formed from the mind of one man. Then they may be much discussed if they attract attention, but progressive adaptive modification as a result of the concerted efforts of great numbers of men is rare. — Lawrence Joseph Henderson

It is the inner life that is to spark the change in consciousness that will permit us to advance — Wayne Teasdale

[S]omething had to change. Because I had changed. — Meredith Russo

Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it? Good God, we'd be just as happy if we had no books at all; books that make us happy we could, in a pinch, also write ourselves. What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more than we love ourselves, that make us feel as though we had been banished to the woods, far from any human presence, like suicide. A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. That is what I believe. — Franz Kafka

True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it. — Pliny The Elder

Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us. — Cecily McMillan

Two lovely berries molded on one stem: So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart. — William Shakespeare

Greg Gutfeld is funnier than all the smart people I know, and smarter than all the funny people I know. I don't know what that makes him. But one of the smartest, funniest people I know, is fair to say. — Matt Labash

I couldn't think. I couldn't feel. I just existed - me, — Jojo Moyes

A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner, I wish you to create something that would justify them. The world is all created,said God, but you have overlooked something — Ambrose Bierce