Ilaria Urbinati Quotes & Sayings

Painfully, step by step, I learned to stare down each of my fears, conquer it, attain the hard-earned courage to go on to the next. Only then was I really free. (Eleanor Roosevelt) — Noelle Hancock

Man does not live upon nominal values, but upon real products, and the more products there are, whatever be their price, the richer he is. — Frederic Bastiat

When a judge goes beyond [his proper function] and reads entirely new values into the Constitution, values the framers and ratifiers did not put there, he deprives the people of their liberty. That liberty, which the Constitution clearly envisions, is the liberty of the people to set their own social agenda through the process of democracy. — Robert Bork

When you look back at that relationship you didn't think you could live without and realize had you stayed in it, you'd be some comfortable loser, sitting on the couch with another comfortable loser, instead of being the dope motherfucker you are today. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Obviously the household of Richard the Fair was unused to hearing the magician laugh. Even Richard himself stopped pawing his willing partner to stare at Simon of Navarre. "Something amuses you, my Grendel?" he demanded.
"You have been gracious enough to gift me with a clever wife," Simon said.
"A clever woman is a curse," Richard said flatly, eyeing Alys with profound distrust. "Change your mind, my friend. Choose the pretty one."
"My lord," said Simon, "I did. — Anne Stuart

When the world caves in
Still my hope will cling
To Your promise
Where my courage ends
Let my heart find strength
In Your presence — Hillsong

Better to wait actively than passively. — Stephen L. Carter

The only people without problems are those in cemeteries. It is not what happens to us that separates failures from successes. It is how we perceive and what we do about what happens that makes the difference. — Tony Robbins

Many things have been compared to a brick, mainly as a tribute to their intellect or to their aerodynamic characteristics. — Sorin Suciu

The more you know about how things are the less you know about how things could be. — Horace Dediu