Ciardi Translation Quotes & Sayings

It's funny how you can be all alone and in danger and then a minute later feel totally safe, like you've never been lonely before. — Susan Juby

When making a film, if I feel nothing in my body, I can't work. I have to touch. I have to feel. I never stop touching. — Claire Denis

Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is quite likely ... that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual. Put simply, not only is the theological "Christ of faith" a synthetic construct of theologians, a symbolic "Uncle Sam" figure, but if you could travel ... back to First-Century Nazareth, you would not find a Jesus living there. — Robert M. Price

Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud. — Gary Weiss

Just be the strong woman you are, like me. If the guys can't handle us, it's their problem. — Amanda Sun

It was always the ones with A-minuses who came around to argue about their grades. — Kelly Oliver

The only social justice movements worth fighting for are the struggles for justice where you lose, you lose, you lose- until you win. — I. F. Stone

Thus it was up to God, to Him alone
in His own ways - by one or both, I say -
to give man back his whole life and perfection.
But since a deed done is more prized the more
it manifests within itself the mark
of the loving heart and goodness of the doer,
the Everlasting Love, whose seal is plain
on all the wax of the world was pleased to move
in all His ways to raise you up again.
There was not, nor will be, from the first day
to the last night, an act so glorious
and so magnificent, on either way.
For God, in giving Himself that man might be
able to raise himself, gave even more
than if he had forgiven him in mercy.
All other means would have been short, I say,
of perfect justice, but that God's own Son
humbled Himself to take on mortal clay.
-Paradiso, Canto VII — Dante Alighieri

There was something about her.. Even the way she didn't like me drew me in, and I couldn't help but smile. — Kiera Cass

unfair - whether you live or die bears no relationship to what kind of person — Lawrence LeShan

I just got my work visa to shoot 'American Horror Story,' and my official status is 'alien with extraordinary abilities.' — Lizzie Brochere

When it comes to shoes, I always think Charlotte Olympia, of course! Her footwear is always feminine and sexy and also just right for every occasion. — Alice Temperley

I think of myself as a producer. As a producer and as a showrunner, I already understand what it meant to gather people into a room and step back, to create the boundaries of 'everything's okay' to allow TV writers to go to their craziest places. — Jill Soloway

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream. — Hugh Hefner

Each novel presents an opposition, which is never canceled out dialectically, of many consciousnesses, and they do not merge in the unity of an evolving spirit, just as souls and spirits do not merge in the formally polyphonic world of Dante. — Mikhail Bakhtin