Dipasquales Italian Quotes & Sayings

The world put's too much emphasis on what a person does in terms of monetary value and social status as opposed to who they are. If I was to ask you if you would be loved for who you are or what you do (eg. your occupation), I would guess that you would say who you are. Things are the wrong way around unless you follow Jesus.

God cares about who we are primarily, not what we do. It is our character and approach to life that he cares about. God wants us to choose him and put him first which ultimately means being a servant to him and others. — Tim Crawshaw

If you're too specific, people will purposely mishear you so they can be outraged about whatever thing that usually outrages them. — Patrick Ness

As the late earl said, 'The early bird catches birds of a like feather,'" she said.
I nodded, not even trying to understand how that would work. At the very least, the combination of proverbs made it somewhat original. — Tarun Shanker

I am not in yesterday; I am not in tomorrow. I am right now. — James Rosenquist

I'm lucky enough to be able to make only movies I'm interested in seeing. That has to be an instinctive thrust. The audience knows when you're faking it. They can hang any kind of moniker they want on me. — Tom Hanks

What a marvelous sunset,' she said. 'Yes,' replied her husband. 'Most impressive for such a small village. — Peter Mayle

This dudes nuttier than squirrel shit.
-Ty Henderson — Madeleine Urban

What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been set down? The texture of the world, its filigree and scrollwork, means that there is the possibility for beauty here, a beauty inexhaustible in its complexity, which opens to my knock, which answers in me a call I do not remember calling, and which trains me to the wild and extravagant nature of the spirit I seek. — Annie Dillard

[Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and if anyone thinks you are a Negro he is mistaken, because you merely look like one. — Frantz Fanon

No attack is ever really an attack on the victim. It's the perpetrator attacking an aspect of himself that he loathes. He or she. — Sophie Hannah

Revitalizing the earth is an important job. One I admire. I might even be happy to consider it, if I didn't kill every plant I touched. — Joelle Charbonneau

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. — Pope Paul VI

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
when there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
Grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand,
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying [to ourselves] that we are born to eternal life. — Francis Of Assisi

Every time he touched her, the touch felt new, like something they had just invented together. — Sarah Rees Brennan