Giangiacomo Magnani Quotes & Sayings

How can you see better of a dark night than anybody else, never mind how foolish? — Herman Melville

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who. — Rudyard Kipling

It helps nothing to cry and complain, to pluck our hair. There's no difference between getting mad at our fate and getting mad at rocks and stones. The ears of Fate are completely deaf; anyway, it doesn't matter whether she hears our voices or not; when the moment comes, she only speaks of the things she has already designed and rains the orders she has already planned. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none. — E.F. Schumacher

I suppose, because I am a sportsman and travel all over Australia, I see every day Australians doing small and large and often unnoticed deeds; many times I thought how nice it would be for them to be recognised, so I hope somehow that in receiving this honour that I represent these people. — Steve Waugh

Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself? — Richard Wright

I regret having to play the role of Cassandra once more and having to disappoint the fresh hopes of certain ever hopeful colleagues, but there is no possible evolution in a totalitarian society. — Albert Camus

if you've experienced discrimination in one form, you're more likely to recognize it in another. Also — Gloria Steinem

Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born. — Nhat Hanh