Ciacco Of Florence Quotes & Sayings

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word. — Martin Luther

It is impossible to examine questions we refuse to ask. — Chuck Klosterman

How have I used rivers, how have I used wars
to escape writing of the worst thing of all
not the crimes of other, not even our own death,
but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough
so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem
mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves? — Adrienne Rich

Many of the Western democracies - including the U.S. - have a problem that voters want benefits they don't want to pay for. — Henry Paulson

Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!" he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say 'out of the frying-pan into the fire' in the same sort of uncomfortable situations. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Unless we remember we cannot understand — E. M. Forster

it will be miraculous, very miraculous. — Malika Oufkir

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent. — Krista Tippett

I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another. We have to see today in light of the transition, say, from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and from agriculture to industry, and from industry to post-industry. We're in an epoch transition. — Grace Lee Boggs

If Ediacara survivors had been able to evolve internal complexity later on, then the pathways from this radically different starting point would have produced a world worthy of science fiction at its best. — Stephen Jay Gould

It was a year for the ages, like 79, like 1346, to name just a few. Forget the scythe, Goddamn it, I needed a broom or a mop. And I needed a vacation. — Markus Zusak

Yeah, I crack myself up a lot more than I crack anybody else up, but that is okay. At least I am smart enough to get my own jokes. — Corey Taylor

Mona Simpson, rose to honor him at his memorial service, that's not what she focused on. Yes, she talked about his work and his work ethic. But mostly she raised these as manifestations of his passions. "Steve worked at what he loved," she said. What really moved him was love. "Love was his supreme virtue," she said, "his god of gods. "When [his son] Reed was born, he began gushing and — Arianna Huffington