Cittadinanza Online Quotes & Sayings

His soul swayed in a vertigo of moral indecision. He had only to snap the thread of a rash vow made to a villainous society, and all his life could be as open and sunny as the square beneath him. He had, on the other other hand, only to keep his antiquated honour, and be delivered inch by inch into the power of this great enemy of mankind, whose very intellect was a torture-chamber. Whenever he looked down into the square he saw the comfortable policeman, a pillar of common sense and common order. Whenever he looked back at the breakfast-table he saw the President still quietly studying him with big, unbearable eyes. — G.K. Chesterton

Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver. — Alfred Austin

And you did. Sometimes, what we do in this world is right but not legal and other times legal but not right. — Latrivia S. Nelson

If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina. — Carine Roitfeld

I feel that students always learn more from each other than they do from their professor. They learn by doing and not by trying to soak up information from one person. — Pauline Oliveros

And finally, count your blessings. You got through college. You didn't commit suicide, O.D., or have a nervous breakdown, and let's remember the ones who did. It's time to get busy. It's your turn to cause trouble. — John Waters

A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade. — Theodore Roosevelt

The truth is the light and the light is the truth. — Ralph Ellison

I didn't just see fireworks, I felt them. I felt like I'd eaten a million lightning bugs when I was with him. He made my soul brighter, and that's all you can ask for when you're in love. — Viola Shipman

We sometimes forget that we are God-beings, and that the intent of the Creator was for us to enjoy this thing called Life! — Louise Hay

The one thing that about me, being a healer, I just have a different kind of relationship with people. So I am defiantly a different type of celebrity. — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

do not fear the tanker but the fuel that is in the tanker — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There was almost a fairy quality to this place, he thought. The far look and the clear air and the feeling of detachment that touched almost on greatness of the spirit. As if this were a special place, one of those special places that each man must seek out for himself, and count himself as lucky if he ever found it, for there were those who sought and never found it. And worst of all, there were even those who never hunted for it. — Clifford D. Simak

Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it. — Terence McKenna

The [Iranian] government grapples with more important issues and we can maybe say that these films don't really exist for them. It's not about whether they like it or don't; it's just not very important to them. — Abbas Kiarostami