Edone Bagni Quotes & Sayings

The world is full of beautiful things but nevertheless very poor in beautiful moments and the opening-up of these things. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows. — David Mitchell

Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are-you will never, ever reach your personal potential. — Oprah Winfrey

The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights ... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression, but also for enthusiastic justifications for slavery, persecution, abandonment of small children, torture, and genocide ... Moreover, religion enshrined hierarchy, authority, and inequality ... It was the age of equality that brought about the disappearance of such religious appurtenances as the auto-da-fe and burning at the stake. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material
the material informs the form, — Jonathan Ive

But I saw the little-Ant men as they ran
Carrying the world's weight of the world's filth
And the filth in the heart of Man
Compressed till those lusts and greeds had a greater heat
than that of the Sun. — Edith Sitwell

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. — G.K. Chesterton

Happiness is a decision and so as Love. If you decide to be happy then you're happy. If you decide to love then you love. — Ann Marie Aguilar

The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house. A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea. The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon. They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house. — F Scott Fitzgerald

If I die, what a beautiful death. — Philippe Petit

Once you start moving [market] lower, then you trigger of all sorts of things. You trigger people who have to sell because they're over-levered. So they sell their winners and their losers. They're just trying to raise cash. So, what you then get is spreading malaise throughout the global markets. — Mohamed El-Erian

I'll tell you something about true love. There's no science to it. It's as natural as the sky. — Lauren DeStefano