Divertisimo Quotes & Sayings

In my more lucid moments I know that God is right here, right now; that God is the luminous mystery at the heart of creation and that God is here in the joys and sorrows of the world. And I try to see God in everything and treat all life with reverence. — Sy Safransky

Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes. — Zong Qinghou

She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them. — Jane Austen

Everything big begins with something small. — Sunday Adelaja

Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends, belch out our literary preferences and are egged on by accomplices in the audience to acts of mental exhibitionism. Such evenings cannot fail to diminish those who take part in them. They end on Monkey Hill. — Cyril Connolly

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough. — David J. Farber

You can't create experience, you undergo it. — Albert Camus

A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard. — John Grisham

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories. — Karen Russell

Sometimes, it's like you know what people think: You know what they're thinking, and you know it's wrong. All you want to do if change their mind, but you can't. — Jerry Stahl

Nothing is difficult; nothing is easy, all we need to do is work for it. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Dan was thrilled that the second clue had been safely smuggled out of the church in his pants.
"So, really, I saved the day," he decided.
"Wait a minute," Amy said, "I climbed onto the roof in the middle of a thunderstorm."
"Yeah, but the clue was in my pants. — Rick Riordan

If the group has a negative social mood, believing that tomorrow will be worse than today, the bias goes in the opposite direction. Instead of "welcoming" we have "rejecting," instead of "global" we tend to see events that are "local" and so forth. — John L. Casti