Benedetto Quotes & Sayings

He had not colored the leaves in yet, and the trunk and its branches looked for the moment less like a tree and more like a great brown river, the Nile, the Amazon, the Benedetto and Flynn river of blood, and there at its isthmus was this one child, so that it seemed that all of these people, from Poland, from Italy, from Ireland and the Bronx and Brooklyn, had come together for no other reason than to someday produce Robert Benedetto, in an event as meant, as important as that one in Bethlehem that he had learned about in catechism class at St. Stannie's. — Anna Quindlen

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination. — Benedetto Croce

We are products of the past and we live immersed in the past, which encompasses us. How can we move towards the new life, how create new activities without getting out of the past and without placing ourselves above it? And how can we place ourselves above the past if we are in it and it is in us? There is no other way out except through thought, which does not break off relations with the past but rises ideally above it and converts it into knowledge. — Benedetto Croce

For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands. — Pico Iyer

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress. — Jeff Bezos

Women, who are the prime victims of religion, and perhaps in some, stockholm syndrome effect, often form the most fervent advocates of the very thing that degrades them. I believe that in the end, it will be women who will turn this around. This should be the final stage of feminism. For a feminist to still believe in god is like a freed slave still living on the plantation. — Matthew Chapman

Because we; out of our love for these women who hold our hearts in their hands, have and still would do all manner of things to keep them safe." Hill gave a half shrug. "I'd say we finally know what it's like to have the tables turned. — AlTonya Washington

Our friendship--if I could even call it that--was obviously awkward and flawed, but at least it was honest. "~America Singer, — Kiera Cass

Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research. — John McPhee

Maybe everything depends . . . on where you're born, and the inadequacy of the destiny that follows from that. — Antonio Di Benedetto

I asked myself not why I was alive but why I had lived. Out of expectation, I supposed, and wondered whether I still expected anything. It seemed I did.

Something more is always expected. — Antonio Di Benedetto

I think airlines have been very much parrots. They'll just follow what everyone else is doing. Why change a model that they're happy in? And it takes someone like myself or Richard Branson who comes from outside the industry to say, 'Hey, let's try something new.' — Tony Fernandes

Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else. — Benedetto Croce

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied. — Benedetto Croce

Many people think of me as a modernist, as a radical in music, you know, someone who's always sort of at the avant-garde of musics, but I'm also quite a traditionalist. — Gunther Schuller

I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I used to make promises to myself and find them easy to break. Today, I love myself enough to not only make a promise to myself, but I love myself enough to keep that promise — Steve Maraboli

This is my favourite thing about being raised in Africa: we don't do labels very well; we don't do this, 'Oh, you're a Democrat; oh, you're a Republican.' Because we live in the real world. — Dambisa Moyo

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it. — Benedetto Croce

If that god is described as being all-powerful and all-knowing and all-good, I don't see evidence for it anywhere in the world. So I remain unconvinced. If that god is all-powerful and all-good, I don't see that when a tsunami kills a quarter-million or an earthquake kills a quarter-million people. I'd like to think of good as something in the interest of your health or longevity. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

One who can see without seeming to see
That's an observer as good as three. — William Allingham

But a man cannot renounce his life for half a day: There is either the rest of eternity or nothing. — Antonio Di Benedetto

Art is a true aesthetic synthesis , "a priori" of feeling and image in the intuition, as to which it may be repeated that feeling without image is blind, and image without feeling is void. — Benedetto Croce

"Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed. — Tony Bennett

All history is contemporary history. — Benedetto Croce

When we are holding tight to the iron rod, we are in a position to place our hands over theirs and walk the strait and narrow path together. Our example is magnified in their eyes. They will follow our cadence when they feel secure in our actions. We do not need to be perfect-just honest and sincere. Children want to feel as one with us. When a parent says, "We can do it! We can read the scriptures daily as a family," the children will follow! — Rosemary M. Wixom

Art is what everyone knows it is. — Benedetto Croce

We are all, as ever, the playthings of the Gods, and none of us can say what our tomorrows may bring; — Dennis Wheatley

The translation called good has original value as a work of art. — Benedetto Croce

This is a mission and a vision to do good as well as doing well. — Benedetto Croce

Tony," DeMarco said, and Benedetto slowly opened his eyes. — Mike Lawson

Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a value that is fundamentally and universally human ... No people will be truly free till all are free. — Benedetto Croce

I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living. — Raymond Chandler

You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become someone worth becoming. — Jim Rohn

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past ... The writing of history liberates us from history. — Benedetto Croce