Convenzione Vienna Quotes & Sayings

Parents' ability to survive a child's unabating needs, wants, and demands ... varies enormously. Some people can give and give ... Whether children are good or bad, brilliant or just about normal, enormously popular or born loners, they keep their cool and say just the right thing at all times ... even when they are miserable themselves, inexhaustible springs of emotional energy, reserved just for children, keep flowing unabated. — Stella Chess

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence. — Albert Bushnell Hart

Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if. — William Shakespeare

The desire for knowledge shapes a man, — Anonymous

I can't go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu. — Donald Knuth

My greatest lesson in composition was looking at paintings. — Larry Clark

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. — Edmund Burke

I watched my daddy play that guitar, and whenever I could, I would pick it up and strum on it. — David Edwards

It can't possibly work. Because the reason the person built the time machine was so that he could go back and destroy Hitler. Now, with Hitler dead, his future self wouldn't have a reason to create a time machine. So his future self would never build that time machine, and he would never go back in time. It's called a paradox. — C. David Milles

And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read! — A.A. Patawaran

The word which is best said came nearest to not being spoken at all, for it is cousin to a deed which the speaker could have better done. Nay, almost it must have taken the place of a deed by some urgent necessity, even by some misfortune, so that the truest writer will be some captive knight, after all. And perhaps the fates had such a design, when, having stored Raleigh so richly with the substance of life and experience, they made him a fast prisoner, and compelled him to make his words his deeds, and transfer to his expression the emphasis and sincerity of his action. — Henry David Thoreau

What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms? — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body. — Nathan Deal

I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that. — Noam Chomsky