Filosofia Politica Quotes & Sayings

The quill swirled and lunged over the page, in a slow but relentless three steps forward, two steps back sort of process and finally came to a full stop in a tiny pool of its own ink. Then, Louis Phelypeaux, First Compte de Pontchartrain, raised the nib, let it hover for an instant, as if gathering his forces, and hurled it backwards along the sentence, tiptoeing over "i's" and slashing through "t's" and "x's" nearly tripping over an umlaut, building speed and confidence while veering through a slalom course of acute and grave accents, pirouetting through cedillas and carving vicious snap-turns through circumflexes. It was like watching the world's greatest fencing master dispatch twenty opponents with a single continuous series of maneuvers. — Neal Stephenson

He gazes at the people in the truck. "Are you driving back with them?
Smiling, I nod. "Yes."
"With a bunch of dudes?"
"Yes."
"Is that safe?"
My smile expands into a face consuming grin. " I am safer in that truck than I am anywhere else. — Jessica Sorensen

London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan. — Lapo Elkann

I really feel I have found myself as a chef. It's very clear to me what I want to do - and how it should taste. — Daniel Humm

In order to gain their freedom, survivors may have to give up almost everything else. Battered women may lose their homes, their friends, and their livelihood. Survivors of childhood abuse may lose their families. Political refugees may lose their homes and their homeland. Rarely are the dimensions of this sacrifice fully recognized. — Judith Lewis Herman

I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV. — Michael Landon

Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man. — Tennessee Williams

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. — Paul Cezanne

Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Conflict of interest. I wanted to date somebody who was less screwed up than me, and she wasn't. — Jason Krumbine

If this is hatred, then it is very young. I has been caused, simply, by the informal divide-and-rule policies of the British colonial exercise. These policies manipulated the differences between the tribes and ensured that unity would not exist, thereby making the easy governance of such a large country practicable. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Think of your goal as giving your child a kind of inoculation, providing him with the unconditional love, respect, trust, and sense of perspective that will serve to immunize him against the most destructive effects of an overcontrolling environment or an unreasonable authority figure. — Alfie Kohn

He means people who let their faith take the place of their reason, people who believe this world is just a prelude to another, more glorious life. He means people like you. * — Stewart O'Nan