Marturisiri Socante Quotes & Sayings

Okay," I said, resettling myself and looking up.You need the thrill of danger flitted through my mind, and I quashed it. — Kim Harrison

I'm a phys ed major: that's ballroom dancing and handball. — Joe Gibbs

Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth. — Og Mandino

The effects of heat are subject to constant laws which cannot be discovered without the aid of mathematical analysis. The object of the theory is to demonstrate these laws; it reduces all physical researches on the propagation of heat, to problems of the integral calculus, whose elements are given by experiment. No subject has more extensive relations with the progress of industry and the natural sciences; for the action of heat is always present, it influences the processes of the arts, and occurs in all the phenomena of the universe. — Joseph Fourier

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat. — Mahatma Gandhi

I suppose I do not on the whole greatly admire the 'Tortoises' of this world. While one may appreciate their plodding steadiness and ability to survive, one suspects their lack of frankness, their capacity for treachery. And I suppose, in the end, one despises their unwillingness to take chances in the name of ambition or for the sake of a principle they claim to believe in. — Kazuo Ishiguro

FURIES:
Over the beast doomed to the fire
this is the chant, scatter of wits,
frenzy and fear, hurting the heart,
song of the Furies
binding brain and blighting blood
in its stringless melody. — Aeschylus

Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges? — Mason Cooley

I harbor ill feelings toward a society, and a clergy, that allows marriage partners to split over the smallest incompatibility, where divorce comes in a multitude of flavors, like Baskin Robbins ice cream, where men and women can blame one another and everything except themselves for matrimony's mess. They look for externals over which they have no control and, fingering them, take no responsibility. — Robert Dykstra

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We all have a responsibility, and since I've been so wonderfully blessed, I really want to share and to make life at least a little better. So every chance I get to share the gospel or uplift people, I will take full advantage of that opportunity. — Gladys Knight

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines. — Emile Zola

The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious to exploit the new economic opportunities and provided the framework for a judicial system to protect and encourage productive economic activity — Douglass North

I don't want to ever, ever do something in life that isn't fun. Ever. — Jennifer Love Hewitt

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace. — Margaret Mitchell