Elvezio Martelli Quotes & Sayings

He lies to himself the way he lies to me. He believes this. He actually believes that he was good to me. — Paula Hawkins

With a Positive Mind There is Nothing to Big or a Road to Long for Reaching our Destination. — Jan Jansen

There are so many things that I want so badly to tell you but I just can't. — Nina LaCour

The new specialty at the Iowa fair this year is fried butter on a stick. Of course, if you're like me and you want like to eat healthy, get your stick of butter baked. — Jay Leno

Had (President) Kennedy turned to his advisers and wailed, "What can we beat the Russians at?" and if someone had cried "Backgammon!" at that point, Apollo would never have happened. — Andrew Smith

What place would that be, a whole world without roads? It was a panicking thought. A world without roads! He would go nowhere in such a place. He would be trapped where he was, he would have lived out his life only where he was born. — Lydia Millet

Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill. No — Jonathan Littell

I think people try to make the most of their time on Earth and also to 'fix' their time on Earth. — Mary Gaitskill

Well, hell, Rico. You're wasting your time being a hotelier when you should be a saint. — Maureen Child

Imagine yourself encountering the risen Jesus. What do you see? What do you hear? How might you feel? — Daniel J. Harrington

Because "we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the ant-heap. If deprived of the imagery of virtue" - imaginative depictions of the truly good life - "we will seek out the imagery of vice. — Russell Kirk

The young man is currently standing in the hallway, dripping on the handmade silk rug that the Emperor of the Indies presented to His Majesty's grandmother. He is insisting on speaking with His Majesty."
"It's a very ugly rug," Mendanbar said. "That's why we put it in the entry hall. — Patricia C. Wrede

God wants us ... to talk to him as to a friend or father-authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly. — Bill Hybels

Prioritization provides a framework for focusing on creativity. — Pearl Zhu

These bastards who run our country are a bunch of conniving, thieving, smug pricks who need to be brought down and removed and replaced with a whole new system that we control. — Michael Moore