Marchesa Casati Quotes & Sayings

Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell. — Randy Alcorn

Persephone barely told anybody anything even when it wasn't a secret. — Maggie Stiefvater

Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid. — George Galloway

I'm at the round table, where your seat at?
Where your plate, where your lobster, where your sea bass? — Gunplay

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers. — Charles Lyell

I'm seeing too many kids where they get fixated on their own autism. I'd rather have them get fixated that they like programming computers or they like art or they want to sing in the church choir or they want to train dogs, you know, something that they can turn into a career. — Temple Grandin

I am doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives. — Albert Einstein

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context. — Josh McDowell

The heart of seduction lies in the promise of prosperity and wealth. In — Iain M. Duguid

Fiction is always a utopian task, in that there's an ideal you hold in your head as you write which inevitably fails in the moment of creation, in the insufficiency of words to convey meaning, or in the way the work is completed in the reader's head. — Lauren Groff

I think for me, when I'm looking at a script I really try to consider what experience am I embarking upon, because for me it's really about the experience. — Jennifer Beals

Charlie found himself affecting the Emperor's formal speech patterns, as if somehow he had been transported to a royal court where a nobleman was distinguished by the crumbs in his beard and the royal guard were not above licking their balls. — Christopher Moore