Iniziativa Democratica Quotes & Sayings

The more attention we pay to the idea that reality shifts, the more we see our reality shift — Cynthia Sue Larson

Gardening is the instrument of grace. — May Sarton

Women are females and men are males. According to gynaecologists, women menstruate every month or so, while men, being male, do not menstruate or suffer during the monthly period. A women, being female, is naturally subject to monthly bleeding. When a women does not menstruate, she is pregnant. If she is pregnant, she becomes, due to pregnancy, less active for about a year. — Muammar Gaddafi

A ship with a hole underneath is doomed to sink! And ignorance is also a hole in the brain, a big hole! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do. — Maurice Sendak

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are. — John W. Gardner

I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure. — Tommy Cooper

Say surrender. Say alabaster. Switchblade.

Honeysuckle. Goldenrod. Say autumn.
Say autumn despite the green
in your eyes. Beauty despite
daylight. Say you'd kill for it. Unbreakable dawn
mounting in your throat.
My thrashing beneath you
like a sparrow stunned
with falling. — Ocean Vuong

When I was starting as an anime director I wanted to be known for great things. I never wanted to be known for some overblown toy commercial. — Yoshiyuki Tomino

None was more indifferent to convention than herself, and the marriage tie especially excited her ridicule, but she despised entirely those who disregarded the by-laws of society, yet lacked courage to suffer the results of their boldness: to seek the good opinion of the world, and yet secretly to act counter to its idea of decorum, was a very contemptible hypocrisy. — W. Somerset Maugham

It's always been difficult for me to speak and express my innermost thoughts. I prefer to write. When I sit down and write, words grow very docile, they come and feed out of my hand like little birds, and I can do almost what I want with them; whereas when I try to marshal them in open air, they fly away from me. — Philippe Claudel

Artists, by nature, are gamblers. Gambling is a dangerous habit. But whenever you make art, you're always gambling. You're rolling the dice on the slim odds that your investment of time, energy, and resources now might pay off later in a big way - that somebody might buy your work, and that you might become successful. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I ask you, what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth - and get loads of therapy - to have that? — Noorilhuda

No horse jokes," he said.
"My lord, I apologize for the horse joke. If you put down the book
unharmed!
I will give you a carrot."
He brandished the book at her. "Was that a horse joke?"
"Neigh."
"Was that a horse joke? — Cynthia Hand