Malinconia Translation Quotes & Sayings

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously. — Wyndham Lewis

The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral sense. — Ronald Fisher

Egypt has a presidential system. The president runs the state. Who the president is matters profoundly. — Richard Engel

Choices always have Consequences — M.J. Moore

Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore. — Scott Weiss

It's fear that makes a situation dangerous. — Marilyn Wallace

Men can imagine their own deaths, they can see them coming, and the mere though of impending death acts like an aphrodisiac. A dog or rabbit doesn't behave like that. Take birds
in a lean season they cut down on the eggs, or they won't mate at all. They put their energy into staying alive themselves until times get better. But human beings hope they can stick their souls into someone else, some new version of themselves, and live on forever.
As a species were doomed by hope, then?
You could call it hope. That, or desperation.
But we're doomed without hope, as well, said Jimmy.
Only as individuals, said Crake cheerfully. — Margaret Atwood

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft. — Cass Sunstein

With that he sank back, spent and fading. I told him I loved him. And then he seemed to disappear into himself, his gaze drifting past me to the sky, bristling now with stars. — Ransom Riggs

I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays. — Gia Coppola

The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom. — Noreena Hertz