Gian Gaetano Donizetti Quotes & Sayings

Being born into a prosperous middle-class family typically endows you with a safety net for life. If you are not naturally very bright, you are still likely to go far and, at the very least, will never experience poverty as an adult. A good education compounded by your parents' 'cultural capital', financial support and networks will always see you through. If you are a bright child born into a working-class family, you do not have any of these things. The odds are that you will not be better off than your parents. — Owen Jones

My family has to be very patient living with me, if you're playing a part that's not you. You have to get it right. — Peter Capaldi

Ice is nice at any price. — Mae West

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily. — Anne Tyler

Your life can be horrible or it can be incredibly beautiful. It can be boring or exciting. It's seldom in between. Your active use of will determines what will happen to you in this and other lives. — Frederick Lenz

Harris's fixed ideas that he can sing a comic song; the fixed idea, on the contrary, among those of Harris's friends who have heard him try, is that he can't and never will be able to, and that he ought not to be allowed to try. — Jerome K. Jerome

Also, he was more discriminating now than he had been then, back in the old days when he would read a book to its bitter end whether he liked it or not. These days, a book he disliked was unlikely to last ten pages of his concentration. — Ian Rankin

Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world's fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad. They project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others. — M. Scott Peck

I could ride away and hide away Where we were miles apart But when I got there I'd find you there Right in my heart — Leo Robin