John Manzoni Quotes & Sayings

Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt. — Jules Verne

The way out of a room is not through the door. Just don't want out. And you're free ... — Charles Manson

Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future. — Thomas Carlyle

Here is a man who was resigned to his fate, who was walking to the scaffold and about to die like a coward, that's true, but at least he was about to die without resisting and without recriminations. Do you know what gave him that much strength? Do you know what consoled him? It was the fact that another man was to die like him, that another man was to die before him! Put two sheep in the slaughter-house or two oxen in the abattoir and let one of them realize that his companion will not die, and the sheep will bleat with joy, the ox low with pleasure. But man, man whom God made in His image, man to whom God gave this first, this sole, this supreme law, that he should love his neighbour, man to whom God gave a voice to express his thoughts - what is man's first cry when he learns that his neighbour is saved? A curse. All honour to man, the masterpiece of nature, the lord of creation! — Alexandre Dumas

Unionized teachers have destroyed much of the state school system. — Conrad Black

The note wasn't signed, but I could tell it was from Morelli by the way my nipples got hard. — Janet Evanovich

When money, instead of man, is at the center of the system, when money becomes an idol, men and women are reduced to simple instruments of a social and economic system, which is characterized, better yet dominated, by profound inequalities. So we discard whatever is not useful to this logic; it is this attitude that discards children and older people, and is now affecting the young. — Pope Francis

When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again. — John Le Carre

I looked down at the doors of the forbidden Dorms and studiously examined the bulletin boards covered with incomprehensible information about events and rules I didn't understand - laundry schedules, inmate appointments with various staffers, crochet permits, and the weekend movie schedule. This weekend's film was Bad Boys II. — Piper Kerman

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine! — Wallace Shawn

It's just the world seems a very spacious place without him. — Freya North

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. — Joseph Joubert

If you're a young woman in Hollywood, then they want you to look a certain way and paint you in this and that. To this day, it's hard to find people like us, who want to kind of find deep truths, not just skirt above the top of it. — Sherilyn Fenn

The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market. — Robert Reich

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another. — Margaret Mead