Giovanetti Eye Quotes & Sayings

an old Underwood office machine so big and black and ancient it looked as though it should come with a foreign correspondent attached. — Donald E. Westlake

I couldn't get along with the French. — Jerry Della Femina

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty. — Alex Lemon

Lesson: Finishing first has many different reasons. Run your race. — Erik Qualman

No, he can never be lost who recommends himself to thee, O Mary. — Alphonsus Liguori

It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get published. But, there is no secret. — Dennis Lehane

In our formative years, every person begins creating a self that can keep him or her company through later stages in life. It requires concentrated effort to create self-hood. The task of creating a fully developed human being is an ongoing process, an open-ended assignment. The goal of self-hood is to evade slipping into a state of thoughtlessness, where we fail to take ownership of our thoughts, deeds, and lifestyle. — Kilroy J. Oldster

There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt to do so. One must simply hold out and endure it. At first that sounds very hard, but at the same time it is also a great comfort. For to the extent the emptiness truly remains unfilled one remains connected to the other person through it. It is wrong to say that God fills the emptiness. God in no way fills it but much more leaves it precisely unfilled and thus helps us preserve
even in pain
the authentic relationship. Further more, the more beautiful and full the remembrances, the more difficult the separation. But gratitude transforms the torment of memory into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as a thorn but as a precious gift deep within, a hidden treasure of which one can always be certain. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they? — Erwin Rommel

Psychology looks at people from the inside. Economics looks at them from the outside. — John Lanchester

By the time you turn thirty, your life is about escaping the person you've become in order to escape the person you've become in order to escape the person you started as. — Chuck Palahniuk

To deconstruct a concept is to analyze it in a way which reveals its construction - both in the temporal sense of its birth and development over time and in a certain cultural and political matrix, and in the sense of its own present structure, its meaning, and its relation to other concepts. One of the most impressive aspects of such an analysis is the revelation of the 'contingency' of the concept, i.e. the fact that it is only the accidental collaboration of various historical events and circumstances that brought that concept into being, and the fact that there could be a world of sense without that concept in it (emphasis added).26 In — Robert Jensen

I slept and dreamt life is beauty, I woke and found life is duty. — Confucius