Finestrelles Quotes & Sayings

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact. — Malcolm Muggeridge

Carl Degler says (Out of Our Past): "No new social class came to power through the door of the American revolution. The men who engineered the revolt were largely members of the colonial ruling class." George Washington was the richest man in America. John Hancock was a prosperous Boston merchant. Benjamin Franklin was a wealthy printer. And so on. On the other hand, town mechanics, laborers, and seamen, as well as small farmers, were swept into "the people" by the rhetoric of the Revolution, by the camaraderie of military service, by the distribution of some land. Thus was created a substantial body of support, a national consensus, something that, even with the exclusion of ignored and oppressed people, could be called "America. — Howard Zinn

I know the good from the bad, also the in-between, but I was never political. — Luise Rainer

Well, she's saving your butt from being sent back to New York, so play nice.'
'I am playing nice,' Aggie insisted.
'For someone raised by wolves. — Alyxandra Harvey

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. — Dale Carnegie

There is always a story behind what you like. Like what you like and be happy with what you like but don't ever forget to mind the real lessons from the story behind what you like. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

He was juggling issues and solving problems, which was why his brain had no space left for memories. — Candace Bushnell

Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time. — Eileen Myles

I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything. — Liz Phair

I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later - even if a coach comes in that's able to connect with them - if that's who they are, they're going to go back to it. — Scott Brooks

Communication always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motivation. — Peter Drucker

I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify. — Leonard Slatkin

I want to interrupt a game of magic the gathering by busting through a wall on a motorcycle — Megan Boyle

I understand the sensitivities of grown children with little ones of their own!! They'll turn away a mother full of advice, but they'll never say no to one holding a mop. — Cathy Guisewite