Commovente In English Quotes & Sayings

Life is easier than you'd think;all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable. Kathleen Norris — Susanne Matthews

A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind. — Mahatma Gandhi

Violence doesn't solve anything. Win would make a face when I said that, but the truth was, whenever I resorted to violence, it never just ended there. Violence ripples and reverberates. It echoes and really never seems to go silent. — Harlan Coben

Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process. — Paula Vogel

We were small and thought we knew nothing Worth knowing. We thought words travelled the wires In the shiny pouches of raindrops, Each one seeded full with the light Of the sky, the gleam of the lines, and ourselves So infinitesimally scaled We could stream through the eye of a needle. — Seamus Heaney

The major economies are not American anymore. They are Asian and South American. — David Douglas Duncan

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that. — Steven Cojocaru

Love is the desire for another's happiness. — Marty Rubin

It's important to not be naive about this world and know that it's not necessarily a good place to be. — Juno Temple

I wish to state emphatically that I do not believe in any sort of handwork or manipulation on a photographic negative or print. — Alvin Langdon Coburn

In 1776, 1950, or now, there's never been a golden age of liberty, and there never will be. People who value freedom will always have to defend it from those who claim the right to wield power over others ... And, in today's world, that means more than a musket by the door. It means being an active citizen. — David Boaz

What does that mean?" Matthias asked. "Goedmedbridge?"
"Good maiden bridge."
"Why is it called that?"
Nina leaned against the doorway and said, "Well, the story is that when a woman found out her husband had fallen in love with a girl from West Stave and planned to leave her, she came to the bridge and, rather than live without him, hurled herself into the canal."
"Over a man with so little honor?"
"You'd never be tempted? All the fruits and flesh of West Stave before you?"
"Would you throw yourself off a bridge for a man who was?"
"I wouldn't throw myself off a bridge for the king of Ravka. — Leigh Bardugo

Citizens who over-rely on their government to do everything not only become dependent on their government, they end up having to do whatever the government demands. In the meantime, their initiative and self-respect are destroyed. — Charles Koch

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people. — Harry Chapin

I have a feeling that life as a billionaire in Silicon Valley is very different than the life that you or I would lead. Unless you're a billionaire; I don't know your financial situation. — Alec Berg