Civita Quotes & Sayings

Avoid all refined speculations; confine yourself to simple reflections, and recur to them frequently. Those who pass too rapidly from one truth to another feed their curiosity and restlessness; they even distract their intellect with too great a multiplicity of views. Give every truth time to send down deep root into the heart. — Francois Fenelon

I like being an editor, and I know how to make a magazine. — Roberto Civita

He just asked questions, especially to begin a conversation, as if he knew nothing. In the course of the discussion he would generally get his opponents to recognize the weakness of their arguments, and, forced into a corner, they would finally be obliged to realize what was right and what was wrong. — Jostein Gaarder

It's easier for me to get ready for a game on the road because you're expected to lose when you play away from home. That's a challenge to right there and that perks my competitive juices. — Michael Jordan

A significant number of people diagnosed with mental illness have psychic abilities not yet under control. They may have true mental illness as well, including faulty neurological wiring and chemical imbalance. However, some people have mental breaks because of psychic abilities they don't know how to handle. — Shepherd Hoodwin

I'm persuaded today that the only way you can get into another country with a different culture from your own is to find a local partner who knows the market. Discovering this felt like small children discovering that if you put a bobby pin into an electric plug you get a shock! — Roberto Civita

It's like a boulder rolling down a hill - you can watch it and talk about it and scream and say Shit! but you can't stop it. It's just a question of where it's going to go. — Tom Wolfe

Dacca is now the free capital of a free country. — Indira Gandhi

Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. — Chloe Thurlow

Garth, marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries! — Wayne Campbell

God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person. — Joan Jett

The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is. — Aubrey De Grey

You need to have the humility to accept your limitations as long as they're there, and have the humility to accept their end when that time comes. — Frederick Lenz

But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power ... It must follow knowledge, and serve need. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The demand for entertainment is insatiable. — Roberto Civita

It became obvious to me that if Abril was to consider itself a communications group, it could not remain indefinitely in paper and ink. — Roberto Civita