Montecorvino Pugliano Quotes & Sayings

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. — Mary Schmich

Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls. — Janet Morris

The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur, carry more weight than those of the healthy. Then, too, all healthy people will in the future know disease. That sense of time, ah, the diseased man's sense of time, what treasure hidden in a desert cave. Then, too the diseased truly bite, whereas the healthy pretend to bite but really only snap at the air. Then, too, then, too, then, too. — Roberto Bolano

Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword ...
D'Artagnan: The mighty who?
Porthos: Don't tell me you've never heard of me.
D'Artagnan: The world's biggest windbag?
Porthos: Little pimple ... meet me behind the Luxembourg at 1 o'clock and bring a long wooden box.
D'Artagnan: Bring your own ...
Porthos: [laughs] — Alexandre Dumas

In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition. — Frederick Lenz

If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves. — David Lloyd-Jones

A certain type - he knew them all too well from years of experience as a detective, he knew how they acted, how they spoke, how their minds worked. These were people who would do anything to win at what they saw as the game of life, who had no allegiance to anyone or anything beyond themselves, who were gifted liars, who could scheme their way into almost anyone's confidence, then betray them without hesitation. — Alan Furst

I'm the baddest among the bad guys. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

A pound coin can go wherever it thinks it will be safest ... It can disguise itself as power or property and there is nothing more serious than you are a girl who has neither. 12 — Chris Cleave

Its amazing waht you can get used to if your daily allowance of bizarre is high enough.' ... Harry Dresden — Jim Butcher