Maiolo Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine; methinks there be not impossibilities enough in Religion for an active faith. — Thomas Browne

The little red eyes glared at Prew challenging, almost hoping for some disagreement that would force Old Ike to prove his loyalty to Holmes, Wilson, the Company, and the cause, which might be Better Soldiering; Peacetime Preparedness; or the Perpetuation of An Aristocracy. Nobody could have named the Cause, but then its name was unimportant, as long as the Cause itself remained to levy loyalty. — James Jones

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading. — Tertullian

Grammar is the analysis of language. — Edgar Allan Poe

A phased decision can avoid there being a key moment when the moral issue about killing civilians has to be confronted. — Jonathan Glover

It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore — Alex Carey

He read the classics, the French and the German among others, but primarily the Russian, which enchanted him with their heavy patience. — Tove Jansson

What we do with this peace-whether we preserve it and defend it, or whether we lose it and let it slip away-will be the measure of our worthiness of the spirit and sacrifice of the hundreds of thousands who gave their lives in two World Wars, Korea, and in Vietnam. — Richard M. Nixon

Atwater knew - as did everyone at Style, though by some strange unspoken consensus it was never said aloud - that this was the single great informing conflict of the American psyche. The management of insignificance. It was the great syncretic bond of US monoculture. — David Foster Wallace

I still believe I have a part to play for England. — David Beckham

The breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind. — Kahlil Gibran

I wonder why rich people always grow fat I suppose it's because there's nothing to worry them. — Edith Wharton

One of the reasons I hate Hollywood so much is that they portray the travails of teen life as so innocuous and fun loving, some kind of idyll before the mean business of adulthood. People forget how much it all hurts back then. Someone pinches you and you feel it in your bones. They don't want to face what a bunch of fragile sadists teenagers were. All these folks who acted all shocked and outraged when those kids in Columbine went off - where the hell did they go to high school? — Steve Almond

I found god in myself and i loved her i loved her fiercely — Ntozake Shange

The gossamer web of life, spun on the loom of sunlight from the breath of an infant Earth, is nature's crowning achievement on this planet. — Preston Cloud