Montecchia Arancio Quotes & Sayings

It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God offered as a reward was only rest. — Ingrid Betancourt

If I knew why I worried so much, I wouldn't worry. — Mignon McLaughlin

Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy. — Kenneth Grahame

Our beliefs become the rules we live by, and then here's what happens: We make ourselves right. — Cheryl Richardson

In the books of some memories it was the best time that ever sloshed over the world - the old time, the gay time, sweet and simple, as though time were young and fearless. Old men who didn't know whether they were going to stagger over the boundary of the century looked forward to it with distaste. For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. — John Steinbeck

If God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist. — Mikhail Bakunin

I never realized before there were so many ways to die. So many ways to kill people. Why are there so many deadly weapons?"

Clapp rubbed his lip and looked down at her. "Listen, Miss Gilbert. I've come to figure that man is the only deadly weapon. Take a gun. It's an absolutely harmless thing - even makes a good honest paperweight - until some man gets his hands around it. You can strip a gun down to its basic parts and it's lost its power. You can reduce a man to his chemical elements, but you've always got the spirit of whatever you call it left. And that spirit will find some damned way to do evil. — Wade Miller

Time and again, in every market cycle I have witnessed, the extremes of emotion always appear, even among experienced investors. When the world wants to buy only [bonds], you can almost close your eyes and [buy] stocks. — Michael Steinhardt

On one of these occasions, suddenly there hovered around the top of the rock a brightness of unequaled clearness and color, which, in increasingly smaller circles thickened, was the enchanting figure of the beautiful Lore. — Mark Twain

America under Barack Obama has become a defensive, reactive and weaker country both at home and abroad. — Chris Christie

I don't know which affected me more deeply - the story of the lemon groves just opposite us or the sight of Poros itself when suddenly I realized that we were sailing through the streets. If there is one dream which I like above all others it is that of sailing on land. — Henry Miller

She is just a woman who life has made different. This is her strange way of trying to love you. — Shyam Selvadurai

It's a miracle I was able to get out of the house today. It's a miracle I'm even wearing pants, a double miracle I remembered to wear shoes. — Lauren Oliver

She suggested I buy her a drink. I shouldn't have, but I was quite drunk and she was quite pretty. — S.A. Tawks