Lamentandolo Quotes & Sayings

We were addicted to each other. — Sylvia Day

There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs' successful efforts to drag the Republic into five wars. What an aggressive foreign policy accomplishes by slow degrees, a state of war accomplishes in a trice. Overnight [war] kills reform, overnight it transforms insurgents into traitors and the Republic into an imperiled realm. Overnight it strangles free politics, distracts and overawes the citizenry. Overnight it blasts public hope. — Walter Karp

All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls. — Quincy Jones

Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican. — Ed Stoppard

Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction. — Henry W. Kendall

Women will not advance except by joining together in cooperative action ... Unlike other groups, women do not need to set affiliation and strength in opposition one against the other. We can readily integrate the two, search for more and better ways to use affiliation to enhance strength
and strength to enhance affiliation. — Jean Baker Miller

Money means nothing to a real man. — James Clavell

Maybe, thinking about it now, we were trying to figure out how to make love in such a way as to make time not matter at all, or defeat it for awhile. Which we did for awhile. — Brian Doyle

Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman. — Bill Vaughan

I regard myself as the most wretched of all men, stinking and covered with sores, and as one who has committed all sorts of crimes against his King. Overcome by remorse, I confess all my wickedness to Him, ask His pardon and abandon myself entirely to Him to do with as He will. But this King, filled with goodness and mercy, far from chastising me, lovingly embraces me, makes me eat at His table, serves me with His own hands, gives me the keys of His treasures and treats me as His favorite. He talks with me and is delighted with me in a thousand and one ways; He forgives me and relieves me of my principle bad habits without talking about them; I beg Him to make me according to His heart and always the more weak and despicable I see myself to be, the more beloved I am of God. — Brother Lawrence

No one would have the courage to walk up to a writer and ask to look at the last few pages of his manuscript, but they feel perfectly comfortable staring over an artist's shoulder while he is trying to paint. — Robert Genn

Hedonism, as any puritan can tell you, never leads to virtue. If we could all set pleasure aside and eat what's good for us, our problems would all go away. (Good luck with that.) — Mark Schatzker

Books are my treasure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you are going to have ideas ahead of the times, you will have to get used to living with the fact that most people are going to believe you are wrong. — Bruce Lloyd

That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs and get a lift home with the police when I become inebriated. What more could you want? — Andrew Flintoff