Mariella Burani Quotes & Sayings

Humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm. — Daniel H. Wilson

The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan. — Christine Pelosi

A young man with an untrimmed beard and rebellious eyes looked like a conscientious objector to everything. — Ross Macdonald

Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence. — Ashim Shanker

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated. — Franjo Tudjman

[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights ... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous ... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror ... — Arthur Schopenhauer

Choose to live in a place where your eyes are always open to the positive possibilities. — Ralph Marston

When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please! — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Globalization, meaning the global expansion of a market economy, is the only way we can guarantee widespread prosperity and peace. A lot of nations are just so small, that unless they can sell their goods and services on the market they're never going to develop, they don't have an internal market that's big enough to sustain anything. — Douglas Massey

She says, "But in contentment I still feel
The need for imperishable bliss."
Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her,
Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams
And our desires.
Is there no change of death in paradise?
Does ripe fruit never fall? or do the boughs
Hang always heavy in that perfect sky,
Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth,
With rivers like our own that seek for seas
They never find, the same receding shores
That never touch with inarticulate pang? — Wallace Stevens