Fortissima Socka Quotes & Sayings

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. — Theodore Roosevelt

I'm one who demands a lot from people. I'm not afraid to look at alternative ways in city government. That's what I've done in my two years and will continue to do in the next four. — Richard M. Daley

One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Stress can wear away at you for a long time, and the last straw can be the smallest thing. — Joshua Guess

Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that. — Rainbow Rowell

When I was little, I didn't like being left on my own in the dark. — John Terry

But every town had been promising. Every place at first had said, Here you go- You can live here. You can rest here. You can fit. The enormous skies of the Southwest, the shadows that fell over the desert mountains, the innumerable cacti- red-tipped, or yellow-blossomed, or flat-headed- all this had lightened him when he first moved...
...But as with them all, the same hopeful differences--...-- they all became places that sooner or later, one way or another, assured him that he didn't, in fact, fit. — Elizabeth Strout

Prayer is power. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Americans don't know a lot about the Middle East - [they] don't know we laugh. — Maz Jobrani

In life, the worst disasters come from passion. — Euripides

People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election. — Tatyana Tolstaya

(On differences between men and boys) Men know what they want. Men make concrete plans. Men own alarm clocks. Men sleep on a mattress that isn't on the floor. Men tip generously. Men buy new shampoo instead of adding water to a nearly empty bottle of shampoo. Men go to the dentist. Men make reservations. Men go in for a kiss without giving you some long preamble about how they're thinking of kissing you. Men wear clothes that have never been worn by anyone else before. — Mindy Kaling

'True Blood' is amazing. I have to give a shout out to 'Melrose Place' because I do watch. I love 'Entourage.' One of my favorite shows back in the day was 'Friday Night Lights.' — Tristan Wilds

Miss Kuhli (Merrihew had heard it "Cooley" the day before, and had built quite a different picture) was Eurasian. Not since the perfection of ferro-concrete and its self-stressed freedom has architecture been able to match the construction of such eyelids and supraorbital arches as those with which Miss Kuhli had been born. Her hands seemed to be the cooperative work of a florist and a choreographer. Her body had not been designed, but inspired, and her hair was such that it could not be believed at a single glance. — Theodore Sturgeon