Chiappetta Quotes & Sayings

I want you to spend the night," you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If you had said, "Let's have sex," or "Let's go to my place," or even "I really want you," I'm not sure we would have gone quite as far as we did. But I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend, and I immediately decided to spend it with you. — David Levithan

The urge to break with a tradition is only appropriate when you're dealing with an outdated, troublesome tradition: I never really thought about that because I take the old-fashioned approach of equating tradition with value (which may be a failing). But whatever the case, positive tradition can also provoke opposition if it's too powerful, too overwhelming, too demanding. That would basically be about the human side of wanting to hold your own. — Gerhard Richter

He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father. — Saint Augustine

You can't change an unpleasant reality if you won't acknowledge it, Mac. You can only control what you're willing to face. Truth hurts. But lies can kill. — Karen Marie Moning

Having words and explanations for things is too modern — E.L. Konigsburg

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that it will be evident to the Athenians that it will be for their interest to observe them. — Solon

Your comfort is my silence. — Barbara Kruger

An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down. — Reid Hoffman

Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue. — Jean De La Fontaine