Dipingere Passato Quotes & Sayings

The Greek philosopher Epictetus said, First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. — Laini Taylor

If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through the windows, the curtains drawn aside,we see the family about the pleasant hearth; the old lady knitting; the cat playing with the yarn;the children wishing they had as many dolls or dollars or knivesor somethings, as there are sparks going out to join the roaring blast;the father reading and smoking, and the clouds rising like incense from the altar of domestic joy.I never passed such a house without feeling thatI had received a benediction. — Robert Green Ingersoll

To dance is to reach for a word that doesn't exist,
To sing the heartsong of a thousand generations,
To feel the meaning of a moment in time. — Beth A. Jones

What made me most courageous was that I realized I had to try to let go of that stereotype I had in my mind, that bit of homophobia, and try for a second to be vulnerable and sensitive. It was f**kin' hard, man. I succeeded only for milliseconds. — Jake Gyllenhaal

She said interruptions were simply God's appointments. — Debbie Macomber

I think if you look down the road for Twitter, we would like to be a company - a service - that is used by billions of people around the world in every country in the world because we feel that the power of Twitter is that it brings people closer to each other, to their governments, to their heroes, etc. — Dick Costolo

I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure of what the words are in the original. — Christian Wiman

I can promise that every morning when you wake up, you'll never regret being with me. — Lynn Hagen

Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone. — Andrew Shue

What a fool she had been to waste the most precious gift of all, the gift of today. She — Barbara Bretton

Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline. — Sun Ra

It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous. — Crystal Eastman

The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger. — Irving Kaufman

Human beings, you see, fall apart all the time. In many different ways. That is the central theme. There is no need to disguise it. — Patrick Somerville

The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same (though that would be good). Rather, his teachings and behavior reflect an alternative social vision. Jesus was not talking about how to be good and how to behave within the framework of a domination system. He was a critic of the domination system itself. — Marcus J. Borg