Castellammare Quotes & Sayings

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human. — David Morrissey

No one ever died of love yet, said the prioress with a savage bitterness. — W. Somerset Maugham

We did all the standard camp numbers: "Down By The Aegean," "I Am My Own Great-Great-Great-Great Grandpa," "This Land is Minos's Land. — Rick Riordan

You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes ... I see ... — Ken Kesey

We spoke of those magic summer nights, looking out over the gulf of Castellammare, when the stars are mirrored in the sleeping sea, and how, lying on your back among the mastic trees, your spirit is lost in the whirling heavens, while the body braces itself, fearing the approach of demons. — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

To move along the line of natural expectation consolidates the opponent's balance and thus increases his resisting power. In war, as in wrestling, the attempt to throw the opponent without loosening his foothold and upsetting his balance results in self-exhaustion, increasing in disproportionate ratio to the effective strain put upon him. Success by such a method only becomes possible through an immense margin of superior strength in some form-and, even so, tends to lose decisiveness. In most campaigns the dislocation of the enemy's psychological and physical balance has been the vital prelude to a successful attempt at his overthrow. — B.H. Liddell Hart

I never watch sports. Ever. The reasons are obvious - or should be to anyone who values their time. — Graeme Simsion

Why do people feel guilty about TV? What is wrong with it? Just this: it shuts out all the wonderful things of which the mind is capable, leaving it drugged in a state of thoughtless stupor. — Hugh Nibley

Man is occupied and has been persistently occupied since his separate evolution, with three kinds of struggle: first with the massive, unintelligent forces of nature, heat and cold, winds, rivers, matter and energy; secondly, with the things closer to him, animals and plants, his own body, its health and disease; and lastly, with his desires and fears, his imaginations and stupidities. — J. D. Bernal

Hope could betray you - but if you had no hope, life could actually
surprise you in the best of ways. — Amy Lane

Impossible? I don't believe in impossible, hard to get maybe, but that makes it all the more interesting. — Sue McGarvie

It's funny: a lot of roles I do read for mention physical presence - like, 'built like a quarterback' - and for me, it's pretty boring because I don't want that to be the most important thing. I'm not trying to be Dwayne Johnson. — Jai Courtney

The cells of death row are filled with guys who had nothing to hide. — Kenneth Eade

Financial fitness is not pipe dream or a state of mind it's a reality if you are willing to pursue it and embrace it. — Will Robinson