Grandi Speranze Quotes & Sayings

I read: This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
I started to cry. — Jeanette Winterson

When I was sent the script for 'Homeland,' I didn't think anything of it. Three months later, my manager rang and said: 'They are interested in you.' I read it and I realised, 'Yes, I do want this.' Then I got an email saying I'd got it. — David Harewood

One or two years ago, I didn't know who I was on court and I used to swear a lot. But now I've learned how to cope and can therefore win 10 matches in a row. I want to be remembered as a good player rather than an idiot on court. — Roger Federer

The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is, that all the argument is on one side. There are no objections, and no answers to objections. But on every subject on which difference of opinion is possible, the truth depends on a balance to be struck between two sets of confliting reasons. Even in natural philosophy, there is always some other explanation possible of the same facts; some geocentric theory instead of heliocentric, some phlogiston instead of oxygen; and it has to be shown why that other theory cannot be the true on: and until this is shown, and until we know how it is shown, we do not understand the grounds of our opinion. But when we turn to subjects infinitely more complicated, to morals, religion, politics, social relations, and the business of life, three-fourths of the arguments for every disputed opinion consist in dispelling the appearances which favour some opinion different from it. — John Stuart Mill

If it was that beautiful, why did I leave you — Marian Keyes

A walk through an old graveyard shows our ancestors often had more dead children than we have live ones. — P. J. O'Rourke

The only thing one can do one day one did not do the day before is to die. — Elizabeth Montagu

Let me draw your attention to one thing which unfortunately we always forget: that is - "O man, have faith in yourself." — Swami Vivekananda

'Hound Dog' is a really short record, and most singles didn't last three minutes. — Dave Davies

Right now it's just me and my impatience having a silent war at the dinner table. — Colleen Hoover