Gluposo Quotes & Sayings

Mahlia ... understood Doctor Mahfouz and his blind rush into the village. He wasn't trying to change them. He wasn't trying to save anyone. He was just trying to not be part of the sickness. Mahlia had thought he was stupid for walking straight into death, but now, as she lay against the pillar, she saw it differently. She thought she'd been surviving. She thought that she'd been fighting for herself. But all she'd done was create more killing, and in the end it had all led to this moment, where they bargained with a demon ... not for their lives, but for their souls (p. 403) — Paolo Bacigalupi

He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour . — Andrew Dickson White

The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea. — David Allan Coe

Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden — Karl Kraus

He never sat an examination in economics: his knowledge came from pondering problems and discussing them as much as from book-learning. — Richard Davenport-Hines

Big band music, to me, it really has three key elements. First is the lyrics are really sweet, and they're just really family-friendly. The second thing is the music is jazz music, so the music is complicated enough to hold your attention for 5 or 6 million plays. That makes the songs interesting. The last part is the fact that it's danceable. — John Tesh

I do not know how well it will go to argue with dragons... — Ben Willoughby

The businessman only wants two things said about his company-what he pays his public relations people to say and what he pays his advertising people to say. He doesn't like anybody ever to look above, beyond or over that. — Don Hewitt

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal. — Chief Joseph

There's a way of life, there's a way of death. Which way are you on? — Billy Graham

Your father's zeal for books will be one of the last desires which will quit him, Abigail observed to John Quincy — David McCullough

Life is too short to waste your precious time on things that are of no value to your existence". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality. — Friedrich Schiller

There is no death. The thing that we call death
Is but another, sadder name for life. — Richard Henry Stoddard

No one's serious at seventeen,
When lindens line the promenades — Arthur Rimbaud