Finora Significato Quotes & Sayings

There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence. — Gavin Hood

Even though the weight I'm lifting isn't what it was when I was playing, it's not like I'm not lifting weights that are heavier than the common person would lift. I think a lot of people look at that and say, 'Whoa!' — Michael Strahan

If you want to program conservatively, you need to live with the labels. Be proud and stand up for your beliefs! — Steve Yegge

But most important, I see me . . . or rather, the me I've become. Because I can finally see that all the terrible parts of my life, the embarrassing parts, the incidents I wanted to pretend never happened, and the things that make me "weird" and "different," were actually the most important parts of my life. They were the parts that made me me. And this was the very reason I decided to tell this story . . . to celebrate the strange, to give thanks for the bizarre, and to one day help my daughter understand that the reason her mother appeared mostly naked on Fox News (that's in book two, sorry) is probably the same reason her grandfather occasionally brings his pet donkey into bars: Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. Because there is joy in embracing - rather than running screaming from - the utter absurdity of life. And because it's illegal to leave an unattended donkey in your car, even if you do live in Texas. — Anonymous

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless. — Anais Nin

Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids - not because you are right. That's how our Father listens to us. — Rich Mullins

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination. — Curtis Sittenfeld

There's nothing like the guilt you feel when there's room in your heart to love evil. — Colleen Hoover

The sweet simplicity of the three percents. — Benjamin Disraeli

One has no friend who has many friends. — Aristotle.

First they arrested the Communists - but I was not a Communist, so I did nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats - but was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing. Then they arrested the trade unionists - and I did nothing because I was not one. And then they came for the Jews and then the Catholics, but I was neither a Jew nor a Catholic and I did nothing. At last they came and arrested me - and there was no one left to do anything about it. — Martin Niemoller

To love ourselves is to act respectfully toward ourselves, to enjoy our own company when in solitude, to honor our limits and speak our truths. — Anodea Judith

[P]art of the pleasure of engaging with a writer is unraveling some allusions and admitting defeat by others. — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto