Iacovino Quotes & Sayings

People aren't good at processing important things when they're naked — Kelly Williams Brown

Not all of the white working class struggles. I knew even as a child that there were two separate sets of mores and social pressures. My grandparents embodied one type: old-fashioned, quietly faithful, self-reliant, hardworking. My mother and, increasingly, the entire neighborhood embodied another: consumerist, isolated, angry, distrustful. There — J.D. Vance

There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes, almost 10,000 ships, boats, landing craft, frigates, sloops, and other special combat vessels
all involved in a surprise attack on the heavily fortified north coast of France, to secure a beachhead in the heart of enemy-held territory so that the march to Germany and victory could begin. It was daring, risky, confusing, bloody, and ultimately glorious [p.25] — Tom Brokaw

Christianity would not have lasted 2,000 years if the majority of bishops and priests failed to believe in Christ. American democracy would not have lasted almost 250 years if the majority of presidents and congressmen failed to believe in human rights. The modern economic system would not have lasted a single day if the majority of investors and bankers failed to believe in capitalism. — Yuval Noah Harari

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all. — Aleksandar Hemon

There are many who sit in some churches week after week, year after year, without hearing the whole Gospel and knowing what it is to be born again. They hear a gospel which is incomplete, and consequently not good news at all. — Billy Graham

But of course everything presses forward, even as we dig our feet against the reality of it all. — Carrie Ryan

During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible. — Niklaus Wirth

The supernatural is not as it claims, for it is inherently unnatural; it seeks to separate us from our natural world. — Joe Iacovino

Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time. — Craig Brown

They all lie, from the top man down to the bottom. If their lips are moving, a lie is unfolding. — William Rivers Pitt

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily. — Ray Bradbury

He's been on vacation for a year and month. Captain Kirk never left the helm when the Enterprise was under attack. — Eddie Griffin