Malipiero Monteverdi Quotes & Sayings

All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with him and enrich his common life. — John Bertram Phillips

My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever. — Al Gore

Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation. — Jeremy Collier

Nico looked so devilishly handsome under the spilling glow of the moon. — Keira D. Skye

I was class president, on the cheerleading squad, in a competitive show choir, and in, like, six different clubs. — Blake Lively

Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that captures the insight in a kind of wash. The intuition may be real and ripe, fresh with possibilities, but the folk saying is guaranteed to be a cliche, stale and self-contained. — Anne Lamott

Therapy helped, but it is not magic. It does not change our thoughts or behaviours. It only teaches us what they might be. It does not work unless we take from it what we have learned and put it into action. — Sally Brampton

I had no job at the time and was living off the cruel joke I referred to as my savings. — David Sedaris

I am a woman of prayer. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I do feel blessed to be in the public eye so I can share what I believe. But I think it would be extremely disappointing if I were to count on it to provide happiness. I've come to realize that any time I do that, the fulfillment is short-lived at best. — Alanis Morissette

Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable. — C.S. Lewis