Gianclaudio Caretta Quotes & Sayings

In July 1958, Cristoforo Rubino became another informer to fall before testifying against Mafia drug traffickers. A week before he was to testify before a grand jury investigating Vito Genovese and other traffickers, Rubino was shot dead on a Brooklyn sidewalk.98 — C. Alexander Hortis

It is quite funny really when you think that probably I would have married him if he'd been at all clever about it. But instead of putting it to me as a sensible business proposition he would drag in all this talk about love the whole time, and I simply can't bear those showerings of sentimentality. Otherwise I should most likely have married him ages ago. — Nancy Mitford

Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you. — K.J. Parker

To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful. — Bill Walsh

If we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one? — Isabel Allende

Might be dead and buried. V. well, there is more to E.'s & my pax — David Mitchell

After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to the brain, Now, rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity! — Jerome K. Jerome

I THINK IT IS MONTAIGNE who has said that ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head, — Jon Meacham

If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do. — George Lucas

I never wished something extraordinary; you are more than everything. — M.F. Moonzajer

We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash. — Jodi Picoult

How often does it occur that information provided you on morning radio or television, or in the morning newspaper, causes you to alter your plans for the day, or to take some action you would not otherwise have taken, or provides insight into some problem you are required to solve? — Neil Postman

I'd hate to say, if I wasn't running, the television networks would be doing less than half the business. — Donald Trump

The destructible must be burned out of it, or begin to be burned out of it, before it can partake of eternal life. When that is all burnt away and gone, then it has eternal life. Or rather, when the fire of eternal life has possessed a man, then the destructible is gone utterly, and he is pure. Many a man's work must be burned, that by that very burning he may be saved - so as by fire. — George MacDonald