Mangiamele Inc Quotes & Sayings

I am an American. I love this country. — Paul Tsongas

Thus, Symbolism and Decadence are not a separate new school which arose in France and spread throughout all of Europe: they represent the end and culmination of a certain other school whose links were very extensive and whose roots go back to the beginning of the modern age. Symbolism, easily deduced from Maupassant, can also be deduced from Zola, Flaubert, and Balzac, from Ultra-realism as the antithesis of the previous Ultra-idealism Romanticism and "renascent" Classicism. It is precisely this element of ultra - the result of ultra manifested in life itself, in its mores, ideas, proclivities, and aspirations - that has wormed into literature and remained there ever since, expressing itself, finally, in such a hideous phenomenon as Decadence and Symbolism. The ultra without its referent, exaggeration without the exaggerated object, preciosity of form conjoined with total disappearance of content, and "poetry" devoid of rhyme, meter, and sense - that is what constitutes Decadence. — Vasily Rozanov

Almost dream is still real; almost real is still dream! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every time we allow someone to move us with anger, we teach them to be angry. — Barry Neil Kaufman

Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them. — Lou Holtz

The essential is to think that anything you are doing has to become the occasion for slashing. You must examine this well. — Miyamoto Musashi

This search is all about faith. Faith that what's clearly impossible might somehow turn out not to be. Faith that we can do what we never would have thought we could. Faith to keep going when everything tells us we should turn back. — Terry Brooks