Giustacchini Quotes & Sayings

Rilke said: This is what Fate means: to be opposite, to be opposite to every thing and nothing else but opposite and always opposite. — Maggie Stiefvater

Who sneers? wondered Eliza, fadingly. She'd thought it was something only book characters did. — Laini Taylor

I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips — Clement Freud

Wine was served during the meal (rich and heavy, it was usually diluted with water), but the real drinking began once the food had been cleared away. This was the commissatio - a ceremonial drinking competition at which goblets had to be drained in a single gulp. Healths were drunk. This was the time for conversation and debate, which might last well into the evening, and was the Roman equivalent to the Greek symposium. — Anthony Everitt

The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense. — Howard Zinn

The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God. — Stephen King

Something in me that was broken, cracked - becomes whole. The cracks, if I write them with utter honesty, are where "the light gets in." The present meets the past, and healing begins. — Pat Schneider

Book the First - Recalled to — Charles Dickens

Often, when she spoke to men at parties, she rushed things in her mind. As the man politely blathered on, she would fall in love, marry, then find herself in a bitter custody battle with him for the kids and hoping for a reconciliation, so that despite all his betrayals she might no longer despise him, and in the few minutes remaining, learn, perhaps, what his last name was, and what he did for a living, though probably there was already too much history between them. She would nod, blush, turn away. — Lorrie Moore

All scripture was written for us, and for our learning ; but they are not all addressed to us, or written concerning us. — E.W. Bullinger

A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too. — Jim Butcher

If I thought being kissed by Tyr had been what kissing was all about, I had been wrong. This kiss trampled Tyr's kiss, threw it to the ground, and danced on its grave. — Eilis O'Neal

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity. — Barbara Stanwyck

His knowingness made him cold. — Lesley Howarth