Glaucia Franchi Quotes & Sayings

Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We'll kill men, but we want to save mankind. And that isn't right, your Reverence. The world will be an evil place as long as people don't believe in other people. — Karel Capek

I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister's husband or brother's wife! stuck away in some little mouse-trap of a room encouraged by one in-law to visit another little birdlike women without any nest eating the crust of humility all their life! Is that the future that we've mapped out for ourselves? — Tennessee Williams

Believe me, I know all about bottle acoustics. I spent much of the sixth century in an old sesame oil jar, corked with wax, bobbing about in the Red Sea. No one heard my hollers. In the end an old fisherman set me free, by which time I was desperate enough to grant him several wishes. I erupted in the form of a smoking giant, did a few lightning bolts, and bent to ask him his desire. Poor old boy had dropped dead of a heart attack. There should be a moral there, but for the life of me I can't see one. — Jonathan Stroud

Apathy sets in when our passion for the future is miscarried. — Andrew Root

What's happening to our world? Imagine the year 2000 and our ozone layer has vanished ... Our planet has a fever and she is burning up - what will you do? — Charlene, Princess Of Monaco

Whatever you want to do,do it now. — Gloria Steinem

Even if it's a really funny joke, don't laugh if the devil's the one telling it! — Sean Patrick Brennan

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers. — Frederick Marryat

Consciousness is not about information but about its opposite: order. — Tor Norretranders

a man may be very dogmatic in his opposition to dogma. Such — Arthur Conan Doyle

Breath of the winds; dancing flame; peace of the earth; song of the waves. — Juliet Marillier

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be. — Neil Patrick Harris

There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice. — Milos Zeman

Change is possible.'

'Change is inevitable. — Lois McMaster Bujold

The truth is that I've always been fascinated with wealth in America. To me, it's been about the American dream and the corruption of that dream. — Leonardo DiCaprio