Matteo Renzi Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

Inexperienced in agriculture, the Pilgrims were also not woodspeople; indeed, they were so incurious about their environment that Bradford felt obliged to comment in his journal when Francis Billington . . . climbed to the top of a tall tree to look around. As Thoreau noted with disgust, the colonists landed at Plymouth on December 16, but it was not until January 8 that one of them went as far away as two miles--and even then the traveler was, again, Francis Billington. — Charles C. Mann

I secrete jokes like the pancreas secretes ... whatever the pancreas secretes. — Marshall Brickman

He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight you with his wit and his plans. He will show you a good time but you will always get the bill. He will smile and deceive you, and he will scare you with his eyes. And when he is through with you, and he will be through with you, he will desert you and take with him your innocence and your pride. You will be left much sadder but not a lot wiser, and for a long time you will wonder what happened and what you did wrong. And if another of his kind comes knocking on your door, will you open it?

-From an essay signed "A psychopath in prison — Robert D. Hare

Passengers were crushed by descending boats. Swimmers were struck by chairs, boxes, potted plants, and other debris falling from the decks high above. And then there were those most ill-starred of passengers, who had put on their life preservers incorrectly and found themselves floating with their heads submerged, legs up, as in some devil's comedy. — Erik Larson

Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them? — Ron Paul

I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent. — William Vickrey

Left unstewarded, anger, resentment, fear, frustration - any form non-Love takes - can grow into all sorts of warfare, internal and external. — Kelly Corbet

T.V. has brought murder back into the home where it belongs. — Alfred Hitchcock

And where a solution appears possible, the new logic provides a method which enables us to obtain results that do not merely embody personal idiosyncrasies, but must command the assent of all who are competent to form an opinion. — Bertrand Russell

There are enough bones in the human body to form a skeleton. — Jeff

Every man is pent up within the limits of his own consciousness, and cannot directly get beyond those limits any more than he can get beyond his own skin; — Arthur Schopenhauer

Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner. — Ma Jian

Naturally, we shopped, we had lunch, we did homework and we cleaned closets together. But beyond those mundane amusements - and — Dorothea Benton Frank

The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die. — Maaza Mengiste