Dicono Italian Quotes & Sayings

When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax, — Robert Moses

The sad work of a true artist speaks to us in that tone of people who have suffered, who force anyone who has suffered to drop everything and listen. — Marcel Proust

And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels. — Walt Whitman

What people do isn't determined by where they live. It happens to be their damned fault. They decided to watch TV instead of thinking when they were in high school. They decided to blow-off courses and drink beer instead of reading and trying to learn something. They decided to chicken out and be intolerant bastards instead of being openminded, and finally they decided to go along with their buddies and do things that were terribly wrong when there was no reason they had to. Anyone who hurts someone else decides to hurt them, goes out of their way to do it ... The fact that it's hard to be a good person doesn't excuse going along and being an asshole. If they can't overcome their own fear of being unusual, it's not my fault, because any idiot ought to be able to see that if he just acts reasonably and makes a point of not hurting others, he'll be happier. — Neal Stephenson

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it. — Estee Lauder

I must learn to give those I love the right to make their own mistakes and recognize them as theirs alone. — Al-Anon

It was a dream, one that she had thought was within her grasp, but apparently, she hadn't wished on the right star. Fucking Disney really set her up for failure. — Toni Aleo

Failure is just success rounded down. — Ryan North

I live on the Jellicoe Road. Where trees make canopies over-head and where you can sit at the top of them and see forever. — Melina Marchetta

It is a dangerous position to be in when you can't see, can't hear and won't listen ... — Stella Payton