Maciocia Quotes & Sayings

The history of life thus consists of 'long periods of boredom interrupted occasionally by panic. — Elizabeth Kolbert

Lila is right, one writes not so much to write, one writes to inflict pain on those who wish to inflict pain. The pain of words against the pain of kicks and punches and the instruments of death. — Elena Ferrante

Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully — Mason Cooley

Optimists are those who go after Moby dick in a row boat with a bucket of tarter sauce. — Zig Ziglar

born on a early Sunday morning in August, 1960. A church baby — Kathryn Stockett

Many times a woman can find herself latching on to the wrong kind of man because she's never experienced a healthy loving relationship with a man before. The initial example should come from a father/daughter relationship. A father's love teaches a girl how a man's love should feel. A father's love, protects, provides security and let's her know she's valued. — Stephan Labossiere

You nine daughters of Jupiter, sisters of one heart. — Gnaeus Naevius

The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom; to rig its elections, bribe its politicians, appoint its tyrants and, by every sophisticated means of persuasion and interference, stunt the emergence of young democracies in the name of democracy. — John Le Carre

Everybody wants to play his natural position and play every day, but in the world of professional sports that's not always possible. — Brian Roberts

If you can't give me your word of honour, will you give me your promise? — Samuel

When I was a teenager I wished for world peace, but now I yearn for a world in which competing ideologies are kept in balance, systems of accountability keep us all from getting away with too much, and fewer people believe that righteous ends justify violent means. Not a very romantic wish, but one that we might actually achieve. — Jonathan Haidt

He indeed who believes that by studying isolated histories he can acquire a fairly just view of history as a whole, is, as it seems to me, much in the case of one, who, after having looked at the dissevered limbs of an animal once alive and beautiful, fancies he has been as good as an eyewitness of the creature itself in all its action and grace. — Polybius

He found some ibu, as he liked to call it, and went to the kitchen for water to wash the relief-giving tabs down. — John Shanahan

The Directing and Penetrating Vessels originate from the Lower Dan Tian [literally 'Bao']. — Giovanni Maciocia