Mariacarla Austria Quotes & Sayings

Your General Patton, he refused to arrest the SS because he said it would be silly to get rid of the most intelligent people in Germany. Instead, he packed the Bavarian Provincial Administration full of Nazis. — Ayelet Waldman

Leaves like rusty tin
for the desolate mind that has seen the end-
the barest glimmerings.
Leaves aswirl with gulls
made wild by winter. — Giorgos Seferis

Launching a turnaround takes courage. I cannot measure that and so it is not going to be included in my analysis, but behind the moments of change there are always a few people within these societies who have decided to try to make a difference. — Paul Collier

Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life. — Dean Koontz

Sometimes a person thinks he's attached to one thing and he's really attached to something else. — Gerald Stern

Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself? — Samuel Johnson

[G]enerosity ... is the mistress and queen that gives lustre to every virtue, as it is not hard to prove. Where could one find a man, however powerful and rich, who isn't blamed if he is mean? And who, though not appreciated for his many other qualities, doesn't earn praise by his generosity? Liberality on its own makes a worthy man; and that can't be achieved by high birth, courtliness, wisdom, nobility, wealth, strength, chivalry, boldness, authority, beauty, or anything else. But just as the rose is more lovely than any other flower when it opens fresh and new, so where liberality appears it surpasses all other virtues and increases five hundred times the qualities it finds in a worthy, upright man. — Chretien De Troyes

A multitude is strong while it holds together, but so soon as each of those who compose it begins ro think of his own private danger, it becomes weak and contemptible. — Niccolo Machiavelli

If you get earaches, I'd turn my volume down a notch or two for you. Cause I will do anything for you. — Alice Cooper

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way. — Shaquille O'Neal

So that I could better remember these necessary attributes, I have put them in acrostic form as a memory tool:
P - praise
R - repentance which is acknowledged through confession
A - appreciation or thanksgiving
Y - yielding to God's Will
E - entreaty or supplication
R - renewal of fellowship with God — Teresa Hampton

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Why, whatever were we thinking, Cassie?" I find my voice and try to keep up with the banter. "We're not being very ladylike, at all! — Kandi Steiner

About once every four days, someone comes up to me and is like, 'Hey, I know you from somewhere.' — Carla Gallo

When you smile, you fill the world with joy. — Debasish Mridha