Diacono In English Quotes & Sayings

Being a parent is not transaction ... we do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: we are good parents not so they will be loving enough to stay with us but so they will be strong enough to leave us. — Anna Quindlen

Tradition, in its essence, is something simultaneously meta-historical and dynamic: it is an overall ordering force in the service of principles that have the chrism of a superior legitimacy (we may even call them 'principles from above'). — Julius Evola

The last time I heard real screaming in the theatre was when I went to see a movie I did years ago, called 'Wait Until Dark.' Now, my mother was the least emotional person on the planet, but when I got killed in the movie, she stood up and screamed, 'That's my son!' At Radio City Music Hall in New York! — Alan Arkin

This is what pain feels like when it's happening now and I beg my body to know this difference. It won't listen to me. — Courtney Summers

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. — Oliver Goldsmith

To me, ugliness, grotesqueness - that's the essence [of life]. That's where you realize, it's not about all the consonance and the harmony. It's all the parts that are wrong that help explain why we're drawn to something - what the mystery is - just as much as the beautiful things. — Carrie Brownstein

Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance. — Blaise Pascal

Liberalism doesn't speak to ideals. Radicalism does. — Jeff Sharlet

Risk: no full life occurs without it. — Gina Greenlee