Facendo Bene Quotes & Sayings

Intellect is not wisdom one must understand. They're two things - wisdom and intellect. — Nirmala Srivastava

Everything can be temporary, except us. — Kathryn Grayson

When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing. — Darren Criss

Over the course of my career as both an actress and an author, I have met many wanna-bes. I distinguish the wannas from the gonnas because the WBs all think someone else is to blame for their problems ... By contrast, GBs say: 'What? There's no door here? I'll build one. — K Callan

You can control your attitude. Set it each morning. — Earl Nightingale

In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind. — Benjamin Franklin

As for things that could not be changed, they must stoically be endured. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Those homes were like holding pens, where residents waited for death with little more status than corpses. Loneliness, confusion, pain, and the smell of urine and boiled food seemed to be their only companions as the light faded on their lives. Those places had made me shudder, and sometimes weep. Carpe — Gilly Macmillan

Someone's darkness disappears when you show up and allow your light to shine — Yemi Akinsiwaju

The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead on her knees. The grass and soil were still warm from the day. She wanted to cry but she couldn't. The feeling was too deep. — Jennifer Egan

I interrupted whatever you were doing?"
"Indeed you did."
"Son, if you stopped to answer the phone, then you weren't doing whatever well enough and you need to get back to her and do it better. Don't answer the phone next time."
Damn. I just got zinged by my mum. — Georgia Cates

After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth ... The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her ... In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible. — Elizabeth George Speare

Its easier to get a divorce than pass the driving test. Now its just a basic form-filling exercise. — Paul Coleridge