Fermare Italian Quotes & Sayings

He eyed his class of Harvard men sternly. "Girls are also human beings," he told them, "a point often overlooked!!"17 — Jill Lepore

There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer. — Mark Twain

American students, we are told, are falling behind in reading and math; on test after test, they score below most European students (at the level of Lithuania), and the solution, rather than seeking to engage their curiosity, has been testing and more testing - a dry and brittle method that produces lackluster results. And so resources are pulled from the "soft" fields that are not being tested. Music teachers are being fired or not replaced; art classes are quietly dropped from the curriculum; history is simplified and moralized, with little expectation that any facts will be learned or retained; and instead of reading short stories, poems and novels, students are invited to read train schedules and EPA reports whose jargon could put even the most committed environmentalist to sleep. — Azar Nafisi

What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should've been named ADHD poster child of the year. — Rick Riordan

War loves to seek its victims in the young. — Sophocles

You are alive today, and no matter what your condition, make a mark here and now. Opportunity is at every moment, seizing it is pleasure. — Angelo Sotira

I think I was born stubborn, that's all, — Patricia Neal

I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe. — Helena Bonham Carter

Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young. — Isaac Asimov

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions. — Barbara Januszkiewicz

Face it,' I said. 'There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got,' I said. — Anne Tyler

Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram. — Don Marquis

If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things you want, the body can still be uncared for — Zhuangzi