Mastropietro Concrete Quotes & Sayings

Humans naturally reflect their nature upon the nature of their God. So to know a person, just ask what the person thinks about their God. It's either that, or an individual aims to reflect the nature of their God onto themselves; in either case, just ask about the God and you will know the person, or at least, what the person thinks of himself. — C. JoyBell C.

[ ... ] in a predatory capitalist economy, state intervention would be an absolute necessity to preserve human existence and to prevent the destruction of the physical environment [ ... ]. — Noam Chomsky

I don't believe fundamentally in anything but the awakening of spirit, hope, and freedom. — Nicole Mones

I'm just as comfortable performing solo with just my acoustic guitar and vocal as I am with a band. The main thing for me is that the performance remain rooted in the words and voice, that there be no place to hide. — Michael Gira

His strides are the only evidence he exists, and so he wanders,
lost in a city that he has always called home.

Our creased hides and limp tongues attract neither fashionable
eye nor futile envy, and we no longer feel the burden of his
entire weight, though his heart is heavier than it was.
Sometimes we stop, and he looks with longing at the stars
overhead.

We remain on the ground. We have no concept of up, for out
reality lies below. It is how life works. This too shall pass. — Krishna Udayasankar

Stop the darkness and its amputations
and find the real McCoy
in the private holiness
of my hands. — Anne Sexton

A mind possessed
by unmade books,
unwritten lines
on empty hooks. — Michael Faudet

When the ego is not, you are for the first time encountering your being. That being is void. Then you can surrender; then you have surrendered. — Osho

That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or even what we never said, will cause laughter even into the next world. — Marcel Proust

A story, meanwhile, fills out the picture. It uses data, statistical or otherwise, to portray a sense of magnitude; without data, we have no idea how a story fits into the larger scheme of things. A good story also includes the passage of time, to show the degree of constancy or change; without a time frame, we can't judge whether we're looking at something truly noteworthy or just an anomalous blip. And a story lays out a daisy chain of events, to show the causes that lead up to a particular situation and the consequences that result from it. — Steven D. Levitt

I wanted to promote skateboarding as much as possible through different media. — Tony Hawk

The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many. — Andre Gide

I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens. — Alexandra Kerry

California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands. — Paul Mazursky