Digirolamo Bensalem Quotes & Sayings

Memory - the very skin of life. — Elizabeth Hardwick

The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another person's wishes and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions. — Stanley Milgram

Ages ago, when I published 'Amelia's Notebook,' I'd sent it to traditional publishers I'd been working with, but nobody knew what to do with it. Tricycle was this small publisher who didn't know any better, and they took a chance. — Marissa Moss

To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else. — Martin Scorsese

But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person. — Olive Ann Burns

If people are talking about you, that's great. You start making more money, that's great. You get to go to weird places, that's great. The music industry is weird, especially with the Internet. People are calling you all kinds of weird stuff, like 'jangly.' — Mac DeMarco

To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed. — Marie Bashkirtseff

I watched our reflection in the mirror. I loved that reflection. — Alyssa Rose Ivy

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130. — Ernest L. Boyer

Prosperity is often the enemy of spiritual development. — Max Anders

It's fashionable among progressives to wonder why so many "red state" voters don't vote in their own economic interests. This is simply another symptom of 18th-century rationalism, which assumes that everyone is rational and rationality means seeking self-interest. [...] People are not 18th-century reason machines. Real reason works differently. Reason matters, and we have to understand how it really works. — George Lakoff