Dagoretti Quotes & Sayings

Tis the will of Our Savior that we should find you a spouse. (Henry)
'Tis the will of Lucifer that you should torment me until the day he can take over. (Sin) — Kinley MacGregor

I was just watching baby videos of me and I was obviously an exhibitionist. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane. — Julio Cortazar

She had a wild impulse to seize the stout, good-natured nun by the shoulders and shake her, crying: "Don't you know that I'm a human being, unhappy and alone, and I want comfort and sympathy and encouragement; oh, can't you turn a minute away from God and give me a little compassion; not the Christian compassion that you have for all suffering things, but just human compassion for me? — W. Somerset Maugham

In the sinews of the dead there is no blood. — Aeschylus

Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant. — Stephen Leacock

This is the first time I have met someone who seeks out people and who sees beyond ... We never look beyond our assumptions and, what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves. We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were to become aware of the fact that we are alone in the wilderness, we would go crazy ... As for me, I implore fate to give me the chance to see beyond myself and truly meet someone. — Muriel Barbery

Politics is an enemy of productivity — Satyendra Singh 'Shyamal'

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort. — Frank Langella

The doctor arrived towards dinnertime and said, of course, that although recurring phenomena might well elicit apprehension, nonetheless there was, strictly speaking, no positive indication, yet since neither was there any contraindication, it might, on the one hand, be supposed, but on the other hand it might also be supposed. And it was therefore necessary to stay in bed, and although I don't like prescribing, nevertheless take this and stay in bed. — Leo Tolstoy

The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society. — Jim Hightower

Robert Grant, sixth headmaster at Shore, was fond of making one particular remark to the parents of students newly enrolled at the school. He liked to say, "I hope your child will be severely disappointed during his time at this school." The parents were often confused. Why would the headmaster wish for my child to be severely disappointed? Grant would explain that if a student does not experience real disappointment at school, then he will be unprepared for disappointment when it comes in real life. — Leonard Sax

I can multitask like crazy. I'm riddled with ADD - a blessing and a curse. — Glenn Beck

At that moment, in spite of the dizziness, I felt like Nietzsche when he had his Eternal Return epiphany. An inexorable succession of nanoseconds, each one blessed by eternity. — Roberto Bolano