Ciondoli Argento Quotes & Sayings

There is no incompatibility between moral clarity and intellectual firepower, between faith in God and humility
in fact, they're mutually dependent, between a strong conviction that we must go to war and an abundant compassion for any that may die as a result, and between political conservatism and personal decency. — David Limbaugh

I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with. — Amy Bloom

Writer for Conan, wrote a character for me called Andy's Little Sister. Her name was Stacey and she wore headgear and was obsessed with Conan. — Amy Poehler

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. — Edward Everett Hale

[On Russia:] In every way, there is something gigantic about this people: ordinary dimensions have no applications whatever to it. I do not mean by this that true greatness and stability are never met with; but their boldness, their imaginativeness knows no bounds. With them everything is colossal rather than well-proportioned, audacious rather than well-considered, and if they do not attain their goals, it is because they exceed them. — Madame De Stael

Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before. — Michael Shurtleff

The Russians and rogue actors, including ISIS - this is a serious part of the 21st century security challenge that we face. — Jeb Bush

It's patently impossible for a Muslim character to represent 'all Muslims.' — G. Willow Wilson

I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work. — Jeffrey Brown

The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take. — Henry James

When you are grateful,' Brother Steindl-Rast explained, 'you are not fearful, and when you are not fearful, you are not violent. When you are grateful, you act out of a sense of enough and not out of a sense of scarcity, and you are willing to share. If you are grateful, you are enjoying the differences between people and respectful to all people. The grateful world is a world of joyful people. Grateful people are joyful people. A grateful world is a happy world. — Douglas Carlton Abrams

Long-time inhabitant of steeples, accustomed to contemplating, from his perch on a rainspout, the expanse of roofs, he knew that the souls of cities are more substantial and more lasting than those of all their inhabitants put together. — Italo Calvino

I never think of myself as different from anyone else. — Jerusha Hess

The rain and hail pattered against the glass; the chimneys quaked and rocked; the crazy casement rattled with the wind, as though an impatient hand inside were striving to burst it open. But no hand was there, and it opened no more. — Charles Dickens