Manocchio Family Quotes & Sayings

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change. — Jim Wallis

Do not be 'against' anything. Being 'against' weakens you.
Be 'for' what you want. Being 'for' empowers you. — Wayne Dyer

He had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular — Aldous Huxley

My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Sometimes when I observe contemporary U.S. culture, with its hard fronts and nasty culture wars, I have a strange sense that I've seen something like it before - in the Communist and semitotalitarian state in which I grew up. The issues and positions are very different, but the spirit is strangely familiar. In all public discussion, there was a party line that people had to toe; if you diverged, you were deemed disloyal and suspected of betraying the cause. I sense a similar spirit today among both progressives and conservatives in the United States when it comes to many hot-button issues, including Islam. — Miroslav Volf

Sometimes I have a very fleeting emotional dance with a fleeting phrase, like 'half-Mexican.' — Juan Felipe Herrera

The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Time seemed, as it always does in adulthood after a particular stretch has concluded, no matter how ponderous or unpleasant the stretch was to endure, to have passed quickly indeed. — Curtis Sittenfeld

A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come. — Itzhak Perlman

Difficulty is inevitable. Drama is a choice. — Anita Renfroe

Silletti and I, for instance, chewed out cotton wads for the same amount of time. I produced .78 milliliters of stimulated saliva; she produced 1.4. She tried to reassure me. "It doesn't say anything about how good you are or how good I am with saliva."
"Erika, I'm a dried up husk."
"Don't say that, Mary. — Mary Roach

Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation of many generations (or even societies) over a long period of time. By contrast with humankind, every individual animal can and does do what for the most part it might do, or what any other of its kind might or can do that lives at the same time. — John Rawls