Giulio Quotes & Sayings

There is no need to tell you that the 'Prince of Salina' is the Prince Lampedusa, my great-grandfather Giulio Fabrizio. — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war to conquer the command of the air. — Giulio Douhet

To have command of the air means to be able to cut an enemy's army and navy off from their bases of operation and nullify their chances of winning the war. — Giulio Douhet

To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose. — Giulio Douhet

Apart from the Punic Wars, I've been blamed for just about everything. — Giulio Andreotti

If the polymer chain assumes a helicoidal conformation in the crystalline state, and if it does not contain asymmetric carbon atoms, it can be expected that either helices of the same sense, or, in equal ratio, helices of opposite sense are represented in the lattice. — Giulio Natta

I love Germany so much that I preferred when there were two. — Giulio Andreotti

Murky thoughts, like murky waters, can serve two purposes only: to hide what lies beneath, which is our ignorance, or to make the shallow seem deep — Giulio Tononi

The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed. — Giulio Douhet

I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one. — Giulio Andreotti

If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against any other well known person ... I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody but someone who's killed twenty people could easily tell a lie. — Giulio Andreotti

In church I feel very close to the publican of the parable. — Giulio Andreotti

In view of the experience I had acquired in the field of chemical industry, certain Italian government and industrial bodies entrusted me in 1938 with the task of instituting research and development studies on the production of synthetic rubber in Italy. — Giulio Natta

Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to continue under the constant threat of death and imminent destruction. — Giulio Douhet

Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary. — Giulio Andreotti

If the chain symmetry is maintained in the crystal lattice, the possible occurrence of different space groups is considerably restricted. — Giulio Natta

Power tires only those who do not have it. — Giulio Andreotti

Giulio and Maria have a beautiful apartment, the most impressive feature of which is, to my mind, the wall that Maria once covered with angry curses against Giulio (scrawled in black magic marker) because they were having an argument and 'he yells louder than me' and she wanted to get a word in edgewise. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Giulio was against our meeting. He didn't want me getting mixed up in things that, in his opinion, were no concern of mine. For decades the respectable people here did nothing but repeat that the Mafia was no concern of theirs but only involved the people involved in it. But I used to teach my pupils that the see-nothing, know-nothing attitude is the most mortal of sins. So now that its my turn to tell what I saw, I'm supposed to take a step back? — Andrea Camilleri

Power wears out those who don't have it. — Giulio Andreotti

The judges are a big problem. Law is equal for everyone, except for them. — Giulio Andreotti

All vinyl polymers may be regarded as built from monomeric units containing a tertiary carbon atom. — Giulio Natta

To conquer the command in the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat. — Giulio Douhet

In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly. — Giulio Andreotti

Power is a disease one has no desire to be cured of. — Giulio Andreotti

I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants. — Giulio Andreotti

You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right. — Giulio Andreotti

My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty. — Giulio Andreotti

He put his ear to his own chest and listened to the heart. How could the pulse go on, beat after beat, for all of life? No machine could run that long without a stumble. Ask not if the beating cranks are going to jam, but when. — Giulio Tononi

Clericalism: the habitual confusion between that which is of Caesar, and that of God. — Giulio Andreotti

Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur. — Giulio Douhet

Pope Benedict XVI was the first to predict the crisis in the global financial system ... Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti said. — Michael Lewis

Anyone who doesn't design, accepts to be designed. — Giulio Carlo Argan

We learn from the Gospel that when they asked Jesus what the truth was, he did not reply. — Giulio Andreotti

Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence. — Giulio Douhet

I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important element in future wars, and that in consequence not only will the importance of the Independent Air Force rapidly increase, but the importance of the army and navy will decrease in proportion. — Giulio Douhet

You'll be scared! Sure you'll be scared. Who wouldn't fear having their head completely blown off. — Giulio Douhet

My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing. I hope human justice will see at the same way. — Giulio Andreotti

Polymer synthesis in the 1950s was dominated by Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta, whose discoveries of polymerization catalysts were of great importance for the development of the modem 'plastics' industry. — Alan J. Heeger

I have some state secrets I will take with me to paradise. — Giulio Andreotti