Dambrogio Institute Quotes & Sayings

We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion. — Ron Paul

Yes, I'm happy, in human terms. — Albert Camus

The snow melted before they could make a footprint in it. Their lives ended before they even knew what they could be. — Ally Condie

How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy. — James F. Cooper

Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war. — Anna Torv

Ultimately ... it's not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose. — Sylvia Boorstein

Saturdays are set for antique shops. Williamsburg in Brooklyn has some good ones. I get in there and start meddling around with dusty boxes and rickety, worn-in stuff. I like it when I find something with someone else's name on it. — Valerie June

You can't prime yourself directly, but you can
create environments conducive to the mental states you wish to achieve. Just like the
briefcase on the table, or the clean aroma in the room, you can fill your personal spaces with
paraphernalia infused with meaning, or find meaning in the larger idea of owning little. — David McRaney

I knew I couldn't do what Eddie Izzard does, so I just tried to write some stories that were based, or partly based, on my own experiences. — Deirdre O'Kane

You can handle the wheelchair, said the occupational therapist, with a smile intended to make the remark sound like good news, whereas to my ears it had the ring of a life sentence. — Jean-Dominique Bauby

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer. — George S. Clason

A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humble seamstress. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals. — Mark Twain

The greatest problem is not with flat-out white racists, but rather with the far larger number of Americans who believe intellectually in racial equality but are quietly oblivious to injustice around them. — Nicholas Kristof

Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder. — Karl Hess