Bocconcino Quotes & Sayings

So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth. — Dante Alighieri

The operational approach demands that we make our reports and do our thinking in the freshest terms of which we are capable, in which we strip off the sophistications of millenia of culture and report as directly as we can on what happens. — Percy Williams Bridgman

Israel exists; it has a right to exist in peace behind secure and defensible borders; and it has a right to demand of its neighbors that they recognize those facts. I have personally followed and supported Israel's heroic struggle for survival, ever since the founding of the State of Israel 34 years ago. In the pre-1967 borders Israel was barely 10 miles wide at its narrowest point. The bulk of Israel's population lived within artillery range of hostile Arab armies. I am not about to ask Israel to live that way again. — Ronald Reagan

I usually wake up at 7, 7:15, without an alarm. I hate the sound of an alarm. — Pete Hamill

Most of us have one BIG IDEA at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity. — Peter James

Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists. — Friedrich Schiller

Film is not like a book; it's not a writer's baby at all. So many people have put in their talent, by that time that you feel grateful for what they've done, you don't feel possessive about it in any way. — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I'm sorry.
I couldn't love you.
I couldn't.
Because he...
...appeared before me. — JiUn Yun

For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. — Neil Gershenfeld

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. — Norman Ralph Augustine

Don Quixotes! Stand aback from my windmill! — Lara Biyuts

Here is what the scientific research is finding about happiness: we are wired to experience happiness, but we keep hitting the wrong buttons in our efforts to turn our happiness on. — Henry Cloud

As Albert Camus wrote, "We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and others. — Jack Kornfield

I don't give a damn about the civilians. — Richard M. Nixon

The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice. — Steven Michael Quezada