Cafiero Politico Quotes & Sayings

Trust yourself, trust the road, trust the weather and trust your destination! This quarto-trust can create a miraculously successful journey! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you let tragedy change you,
You have already lost. — Nikki Rowe

It's always a good starting point to tell a story that has many layers. — Pawel Pawlikowski

How long do I have to take care of it?" I asked. "SOON." "Soon? How soon is soon? What do you mean, soon? — Jim Butcher

Stay away from excellence at all costs; it stinks. — Michael Leunig

It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying that every man by his folly or wisdom prepares good or evil for himself. But we may view it in another light, namely, that we may so accommodate ourselves to the dispositions of Providence as to be happy in our lot, whatever may be its privations. — Alexander Von Humboldt

I prefer not to call them demons. It demeans their nature.
"But isn't that what they are?"
"We should pity them more than fear them Alfred. They were angels once."
"Yea, but didn't you say they rebelled against God? They got what they deserved."
"Perhaps." He sighed. "Yet do we not all hope and pray that we ourselves escape that we truly deserve? None have fallen as far or as irrevocably as the outcasts of heaven. Did you not find them beautiful." " ... They have gazed upon the very face of God, the face they will see no more for all eternity-and so I pity them. Even as I envy them for having seen it. — Rick Yancey

When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them - part and parcel of President Lyndon B. Johnson's determination to keep the costs of his increasingly futile military escalation in Southeast Asia from the public. — Rick Perlstein