Matarasso Quotes & Sayings

I can't get around this dilemma: I have a horror of troubles, but they whip me up, they make me talented. Peace and well-being, on the contrary, paralyze me. Either be a nobody, or everlastingly plagued. — Jules Renard

The trouble with being human is that we let the past control our future — Steven Aitchison

It used to be said: As GM goes, so goes America. Now it's: As Starbucks goes, so goes America. — Alice Cooper

Whether it's music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship - if that emotion is heightened in some way and painted to fit in between the covers of 32 pages, that can become a picture book. — Chris Raschka

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness. — Jack Kemp

Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained. — Edward Weston

For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I
survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II
a self-fulfillment focus ... Love's definition is in a transition. — Warren Farrell

The world ultimately is what we say it is. — David Strauss

Whatever you want, Sergei. Mike meant what he said beyond the immediate context, but found he was unable to put it into words. They wouldn't come. They had no form. Whatever it was didn't even have a tangible emotion to be labeled. — Aleksandr Voinov

Love is not sexual intercourse. Love is not vital attraction and interchange. Love is not the heart's hunger for affection. Love is a mighty vibration coming straight from the One. And only the very pure and very strong are capable of receiving and manifesting it. — Mirra Alfassa

Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth. — Claudius Claudianus

I want to put you all at ease. We will tolerate no guerrillas in the casinos or the swimming pools!" Fulgencio Batista as Dictator of Cuba, page 228 "The Exciting Story of Cuba. — Hank Bracker

One constant among the elements of 1914 - as of any era - was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true. — Barbara W. Tuchman