Lucciole E Quotes & Sayings

We need to evolve and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization that integrates and evolves the passionate truths of every great system of knowledge - pre-modern, modern, and post-modern. — Marc Gafni

Every time I change wives I should burn the last one. That way I'd be rid of them. They wouldn't be around to complicate my existence. Maybe, that would bring back my youth, too. You kill the woman and you wipe out the past she represents. — Pablo Picasso

I had a millisecond to decide what kind of friend I wanted to be. — Katrina Abbott

Content is the meaningful substance of the work. — Gerald Brommer

One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that. — Seth Godin

small groups of people bound together by a sense of mission have changed the world for the better. — Peter Thiel

Doubt is the enemy of success. — Jim Bridwell

I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together. — John Zorn

I can't imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be some sort of grip problem. — Murray Walker

When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fair and virtuous action is above all the 'scutcheons on our tomb, or silken banners over us. — James Shirley

It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that in one word which either the barbarity or the narrowness of modern tongues cannot supply in more ... But since every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another, it would be unreasonable to limit a translator to the narrow compass of his author's words; it is enough if he choose out some expression which does not vitiate the sense. — John Dryden

Long flights give you more time to reflect, look around, experience your surroundings. I got to know the nooks and crannies on Mir very, very well. — Michael Foale