Matrisciano Baton Quotes & Sayings

... it would even be inexact to say that I thought of those who read it as readers of my book. Because they were not, as I saw it, my readers. More exactly they were readers of themselves, my book being a sort of magnifying glass ... by which I could give them the means to read within themselves. — Marcel Proust

Be acted upon rather than active. In this way, God will do through you alone what all men put together could not do without Him. — Vincent De Paul

If two people are meant for each other, it doesn't mean they have to be together right now
or as soon as possible, but they will ... eventually. — Nina Ardianti

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. — Joseph Wood Krutch

What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation? — Jonathan Stroud

I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon. — Hugo Chavez

I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it. — Fannie Flagg

In no country does the average income give the right picture of how people live but in a country with higher inequality it is likely to be particularly misleading. Given that the US has by far the most unequal distribution of income among the rich countries, we can safely guess that the US per capita income overstates the actual living standards of more of its citizens than in other countries ... The much higher crime rate than in Europe or Japan
in per capita terms, the US has eight times more people in prison than Europe and twelve times more than Japan
shows that there is a far bigger underclass in the US. — Ha-Joon Chang

Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think. — Barry Zito

So much about life was disappointment. He often wondered how humankind endured so long, and if the few moments when things went right really made up for all the rest. — Brandon Sanderson

Fyodor Pavlovich, for example, began with practically nothing, was a landowner of the very least important category, went trotting around other people's dinner tables, aspired to the rank of sponge, but at the moment of his decease turned out to possess something to the tune of one hundred thousand roubles in ready money. And yet at the same time he had persisted all his life in being one of the most muddle-headed madcaps in the whole of our district. I repeat: here there was no question of stupidity; the bulk of these madcaps are really quite sharp and clever - but plain muddle-headedness, and, moreover, of a peculiar, national variety. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . I did not need it very bad. — Henry Ford