Mancia In Italian Quotes & Sayings

The place didn't look the same but it felt the same; sensations clutched and transformed me. I stood outside some concrete and plate-glass tower-block, picked a handful of eucalyptus leaves from a branch, crushed them in my hand, smelt, and tears came to my eyes. Sixty-seven-year-old Claudia, on a pavement awash with packaged American matrons, crying not in grief but in wonder that nothing is ever lost, that everything can be retrieved, that a lifetime is not linear but instant. That, inside the head, everything happens at once. — Penelope Lively

For the record," I interject, "I don't agree with Lo. I'm not a comic book elitist." Anyone can read comics, and if you don't it's perfectly okay to enjoy the characters in other mediums. — Krista Ritchie

Schools [are] ... institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood. — John Taylor Gatto

Servitude is inherent; we are all slaves to duty or to force. — Margaret Of Valois

A narrow and distorted picture of America often emerges from the televised news. A single dramatic piece of the mosaic becomes, in the minds of millions, the entire picture. — Spiro T. Agnew

Inside his copy of The Social Contract he keeps a letter from a young Picard, an enthusiast called Antoine Saint-Just: "I know you, Robespierre, as I know God, by your works."
When he suffers, as he does increasingly, from a distressing tightness of the chest and shortness of breath, and when his eyes seem too tired to focus on the printed page, the thought of the letter urges the weak flesh to more Works. — Hilary Mantel

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. — Azar Nafisi

It was raining heavily outside my window, April showers, keeping the current Michigan spring gloom at bay. — Justin Bog

Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in. — Wanda Carter

Funny how a wife can spot a blonde hair at twenty yards, yet miss the garage doors. — Corey Ford

If Christianity is true, then the end of our exploring will be joy and goodness and life. — G.K. Chesterton

The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of that familiar, irresistible smile. — William Makepeace Thackeray

One thing about past challenges I never let go of: the fact that I made it through, survived, and learned a great deal. — Charles F. Glassman

Whether they soothe or snarl, cringe or strut, suicide notes do not seek to entertain. I — Martin Amis