Giannantonio Spena Quotes & Sayings

Become a fixer, not just a fixture. — Anthony J. D'Angelo

waiting is our destiny. as creatures who cannot by themselves bring about what they hope for; we wait in the darkness for a flame we cannot light. we wait in fear for a happy ending that we cannot write. we wait for a 'not yet' that feels like a 'not ever. — Lewis B. Smedes

For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive. — Donna Tartt

I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death. — Rufus Wainwright

I don't have to have faith, I have experience. — Joseph Campbell

I know for a fact the reason I'm an actor is because one, two, maybe three people when I was younger saw something that I did, in youth theater or some small play somewhere, and said, "You're good." — David Oyelowo

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic coaching for his scholastic difficulties. — Alice Duer Miller

There were too many idiot men in the world, to her way of thinking. And most of them ended up bumping up against stubborn women. — Nora Roberts

The Cold War was a war, and we won it. — Donald Rumsfeld

There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president belongs. From this single piece of information you can trace the lines of patronage and allegiance that define the state. — Christopher Hitchens