Disposta A Tutto Quotes & Sayings

The one percent get nasty when their assets are threatened. — Kim Stanley Robinson

To know, to think, to dream. That is everything. — Victor Hugo

When the Past Never Existed
Then There Was No Life. — Petra Hermans

What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book? — Julian Barnes

He looked down at the glass again. 'I care that these things happen, that we poison ourselves and our progeny, that we knowingly destroy our future, but I do not believe that there is anything - and I repeat, anything - that can be done to prevent it. We are a nation of egoists. It is our glory, but it will be our destruction, for none of us can be made to concern ourselves about something as abstract as "the common good". The best of us can rise to feeling concern for our families, but as a nation we are incapable of more.'

'I refuse to believe that.' Brunetti said.

'Your refusal to believe it,' the Count said with a smile that was almost tender, 'makes it no less true, Guido. — Donna Leon

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university. — Albert Einstein

I can well remember how when someone in my family lay sick or dying - like my aunt when she contracted breast cancer - the Qur'an was chanted by the bedside, in the belief that its words alone would cure the patient. Analogies with Christian prayer are misleading because the reciter of the Qur'an is voicing God's words, not appealing to God for intercession. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

A drone strike is a terror weapon, we don't talk about it that way. It is; just imagine you are walking down the street and you don't know whether in 5 minutes there is going to be an explosion across the street from some place up in the sky that you can't see. Somebody will be killed, and whoever is around will be killed, maybe you'll be injured if you're there. That is a terror weapon. It terrorizes villages, regions, huge areas. It's the most massive terror campaign going on by a long shot. — Noam Chomsky

We're separated, but not lost or truly apart. Do not mourn me, my love. I have not died. . . . — J.R. Ward

Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall. — Horace