Carofiglio Libri Quotes & Sayings

Focus is useless if you're only focused every now and then. It's showing up time after time that makes the difference. — George R R Martin

No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

That old, cold time on the mountain when they owned the world and nothing seemed wrong .. — Annie Proulx

I should not urge thy duty past thy might. — William Shakespeare

Who the fuck needs an avocado slicer? A person without any goddamn sense, that's who. — Thug Kitchen

Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. — Haruki Murakami

People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised. — Elvis Costello

The way management treats their associates is exactly how the associates will then treat the customers. — Sam Walton

was dying a strange death. And terrified. It was that death I didn't want but needed. I could feel it. I longed for it, craved it, loathed it, abhorred it, ran from it, — Lucian Bane

In youth, our blood rises and becomes volatile. Desire, worry, and anxiety increase. External circumstances now direct the rise and fall of emotions. Will and intention become constrained by social conventions. Competition, conflict, and scheming are the norm in interactions with people. The approval and disapproval of others become important, and the honest and sincere expression of thoughts and feelings is lost. — Liezi

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it. — Samuel Johnson

The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it is possible that all the distinctive achievements of the species can be traced to that one genetic change. — B.F. Skinner

All mankind is of one author," he said slowly, " and is one volume. When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated. Then there are bits I havena got by heart, but I liked this one: The bell doth toll for him that thinks it doth" - and his hand squeezed mine gently - "and though it intermit again, yet from that minute that that occasion wrought upon him, he is united to God." "Hmm." I thought about that for a bit. — Diana Gabaldon