Convenzione Sui Quotes & Sayings

Fame, I have already. Now I need the money. — Wilhelm Steinitz

The lost wallet or purse law: No matter how careful you are, assume that you will lose a few ... Keep grief to a minimum. It's bad enough your stuff is gone; don't lose your mind too. — Jennifer James

On its third rising only a portion of the drawing-room was disclosed; the rest being concealed by a screen, hung with some sort of dark and coarse drapery. The marble basin was removed; in its place, stood a deal table and a kitchen chair: these objects were visible by a very dim light proceeding from a horn lantern, the wax candles being all extinguished. — Charlotte Bronte

The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder. — B.C. Forbes

People actually seemed to enjoy recalling that on a Saturday afternoon forty years ago Empire Avenue was bustling with people and cars and commerce, whereas now, of course, you could strafe it with automatic weapons and not harm a soul. — Richard Russo

Lady Middleton resigned herself ... Contenting herself with merely giving her husband a gentle reprimand on the subject, five or six times every day. — Jane Austen

Two days later a Scout simply disappeared without explanation, possibly the victim of a micrometeoroid, or even of suicide. — Neal Stephenson

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail. — Paul Wellstone

Most people believe almost anything they see in print. — E.B. White

The Bible says that the devil is like a roaring lion (1 Peter 5:8). He comes in the darkness, and tries to frighten the children of God with his mighty roar. But when you switch on the light of the Word of God, you discover that there is no lion. There is only a mouse with a microphone! The devil is an imposter. Got it? — Reinhard Bonnke