Ilenia Antonini Quotes & Sayings

A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering. — Anderson Cooper

Democracy is even more important for what it prevents than for what it provides. — Clive James

Self-love is beginning but others-love is the end. Self-love is important but insufficient. — Girdhar Joshi

I think of Jeremy telling me I had to be ruthless to be a writer. And I think how I did not go visit my brother and sister and my parents because I was always working on a story and there was never enough time. (But I didn't want to go either.) There never was enough time, and then later I knew if I stayed in my marriage I would not write another book, not the kind I wanted to, and there is that as well. But really, the ruthlessness, I think, comes in grabbing onto myself, in saying: This is me, and I will not go where I can't bear to go - to Amgash, Illinois - and I will not stay in a marriage when I don't want to, and I will grab myself and hurl onward through life, blind as a bat, but on I go! This is the ruthlessness, I think. — Elizabeth Strout

I don't think he likes girls", I said. "Or boys. Look at the horror on his face. He doesn't look like a people person. — Sarah Rees Brennan

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with. — L. Frank Baum

This is the only thing that makes life worth living. If you have succeeded in doing something you wanted to do, something that seemed impossible - well, then, make the most of it, with all your heart, to the very brim. — Ivan Turgenev

Jack assumed they would be heading to the pub there in Century House. It was drab, like the rest of the building, but more important, it was vastly more secure than just venturing out to some alehouse on the street. — Tom Clancy

I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas. — Carla Bruni

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. — Bertrand Russell

While he was alive, he was impossible to ignore; once he had gone, he was impossible to imitate. — Shashi Tharoor

Sex is the theory; porn is the practice. — Mark Simpson