Beppe Rossi Quotes & Sayings

Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair. — Marilynne Robinson

Linnaeus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable. — Henry David Thoreau

Four simple chambers.
A thousand complicated doors.
One of them is yours. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

Our body is the sacrifice that God requires at this hour — Sunday Adelaja

Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks. — Michael A. Stackpole

God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course. — Rose Macaulay

The power that made the body, HEALS THE BODY. It happens no other way. — B. J. Palmer

The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good. — Criss Jami

The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who's actually doing the distribution in France. You say, "Do you want a piece of this movie?" And he's got to sell this movie to get his money back. That's the brains of it; that's the genius of this financing. "You want Germany? Give us a million dollars and you've got Germany." — Bill Murray

Not everyone who p says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will q enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who r does the will of my Father who is in heaven. — Anonymous

It doesn't really matter what a person decides to do, or how radically a person plays with gender. What matters, I think, is how aware a person is of the options. How sad for a person to be missing out on some expression of identity, just for not knowing there are options — Kate Bornstein

After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We have to give people something to do with life. — Kurt Vonnegut

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion. — Mahatma Gandhi

Someone has written, "The hardening of a tender heart almost always starts with a justifiable action."8 We think we know what we're doing. We consider our resistance toward God's plans and our lack of surrender to be minor compared to what others have done. We figure we do a lot of good things that ought to make up for our admitted weaknesses here and there, in one or two areas. We don't think God expects us to be so radical and on guard all the time. We've still got to have a life, right? — Priscilla Shirer