Cecchetti Council Quotes & Sayings

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits. — Buddha

Hollywood is McWorld's storyteller, and it inculcates secularism, passivity, consumerism, vicariousness, impulse buying, and an accelerated pace of life, not as a result of its overt themes and explicit story lines but by virtue of what Hollywood is and how its products are consumed. — Benjamin R. Barber

I also think that Germany helped me with my aggressiveness. — Steve Purdy

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other. — Orson Scott Card

You haven't failed until you stop trying. — Jon Gordon

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. — Robert Bringhurst

Face, to me, is a metaphor of sadness. And I want to share this sadness. I'm not really interested whether it's an Indian face or not - that's not as important for me. But it's still important to establish the relationships in order to bring about a consciousness of our fragility. — Luis Gonzalez

Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory procedure and a practically costly one. The bourgeois is the measure of the price paid, he who most of all cannot afford to look to his real self, who denies the existence of the thinly boarded-over basement in him, who is most made over for the purposes of a society that does not even promise him perfection or salvation but merely buys him off. — Allan Bloom

Seriously, how was it possible that this huge, sexy male even existed? — Savannah Stuart

There's more likelihood of Ian Paisley being the next pope, than of me agreeing to a fix or a stitch-up. — Rhodri Morgan

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye. — Bill Hicks