Ceciles Italian Quotes & Sayings

I'd rather live one day as a lion
than live a hundred years as a sheep
I'd rather reign in Hell than serve in Heaven
live my dream out in reality and not in my dreams — Lukas Graham

Thinking of death
strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off
made me feel happier than ever. — Dodie Smith

No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how imperfect and jagged our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly disarray, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, a poetic glamour. — Randolph Bourne

You didn't move your arm. You let me rest there. You didn't pull away. You pulled closer. You were so good to me. You knew and pretended
you didn't.
"Let's always love each other, and never be in love with each other."
And I agreed. — David Levithan

I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for. — Tamsin Greig

I try to give my kids everything I never had. — William Levy

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. — Peter Drucker

Bottled water costs about 2000 times more than tap water. Can you imagine paying 2000 times the price of anything else? How about a $ 10,000 sandwich? — Annie Leonard

One foot in Hell, one in Heaven, but there will always be a devil.
Be he your enemy.
Be he your friend.
Be the devil your own soul for fear of the world. — Michelle Horst

Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get. — Don Meyer

For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to. — Rachel Joyce

The rising world of waters dark and deep. — John Milton

A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I always try to create equal power between the subject and the object, so as not to end up creating a relationship where the camera is here and the object out there. This is for me a very difficult and sensitive balance. When I produce a work, cut and frame images, I realize that spectators can identify with the images and almost forget that someone else actually made them. This would be the optimal situation. I don't know whether I succeed in doing so, but that's what I would like to have happen. — Pipilotti Rist

In spiritually arid centuries, the only man to realize that the century is dying from thirst is the man who still harnesses an underground spring. — Nicolas Gomez Davila