Giovanni Battista Piranesi Quotes & Sayings

We were always dreaming of how it was going to be. — George Lucas

Here's how to get started with the antipolitical politics of the Benedict Option. Secede culturally from the mainstream. Turn off the television. Put the smartphones away. Read books. Play games. Make music. Feast with your neighbors. It is not enough to avoid what is bad; you must also embrace what is good. Start a church, or a group within your church. Open a classical Christian school, or join and strengthen one that exists. Plant a garden, and participate in a local farmer's market. Teach kids how to play music, and start a band. Join the volunteer fire department. — Rod Dreher

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are. — Floyd Abrams

The lessons of experience are always learned too late. — George Sand

No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. — Edmund Burke

The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

She goes silent. Ashamed of herself as mothers are when they realize they have passed that point in life when they want more from their daughters than their daughters want from them. — Fredrik Backman

I think finals are there to be won, you know the feeling of losing a final is really bad. I prefer to lose a semi-final, quarter-final because I know I will forget ... But the feeling of losing a final stays here forever. Even if you win two, three, four, five it stays. You know, I'm too scared to lose, so I give everything to win. — Didier Drogba

Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger. — Luke Treadaway

I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had. — Shyam Selvadurai