Centoni Construction Quotes & Sayings

For the inhabitant of a country has at least nine characters: a professional, a national, a civic, a class, a geographic, a sexual, a conscious, an unconscious, and possibly even a private character to boot. He unites them in himself, but they dissolve him, so that he is really nothing more than a small basin hollowed out by these many streamlets that trickle into it and drain out of it again, to join other such rills in filling some other basin. Which is why every inhabitant of the earth also has a tenth character that is nothing else than the passive fantasy of spaces yet unfilled [ ... ] prevent[ing] precisely what should be his true fulfillment. — Robert Musil

America remembers. On this 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the nation honors those who were lost. — Matt Lauer

There is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up? — Cassandra Clare

Even when it encounters an obstacle, flowing water always goes on its intended way. If it meets a rock, even if it parts, it goes around and around again and keeps flowing. If there is no path, it makes one. — Ilchi Lee

The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical [sic] science-that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought, in its search for truth are, indeed, very strange. — Alexandre Koyre

The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God. — Thomas Aquinas

If we envision that, somehow, the surface area of a black hole is a measure of the entropy it contains, then the increase in total surface area could be read as an increase in total entropy. — Brian Greene

Live and learn, babe. See, you never need to worry about the bitches because you already know what to expect. It's the friendly ones you gotta watch out for — Lex Martin

Count Vronsky: I love you!
Anna Karenina: Why?
Count Vronsky: You can't ask Why about love! — Leo Tolstoy

The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind. — Thalassa Cruso

I think the right to read, is one of our inherent rights, and I think that people in America today are intelligent enough to decide for themselves what they want to read. Without being told, by self-appointed people, you must not read this, or you cannot read this. — Bennett Cerf

Some people would rather die in their pride, than live in their humility. — Anthony Liccione

I wonder sometimes why we don't have more words to express forgiveness. The words we use are so trite, so limited. How do you describe that first melting of a friend's face after a vicious fight, the moment when you suddenly know that eventually, you will survive this. — Edmond Manning

We can deduce, often, from one part of physics like the law of gravitation, a principle which turns out to be much more valid than the derivation. — Richard P. Feynman

America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. — P. J. O'Rourke