Oggetti Murano Quotes & Sayings

When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. — Richard Steele

To most of the students, the education they received at school was only an incidental thing. To them, the overwhelming point of school was to learn how to behave in school. How to contort themselves to the school's rigid rules. Take, for example, bathroom breaks. No subject was more highly managed than the students' various excreta. — Nathan Hill

Death is the reward for living — Sylvia Browne

There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate. — Margaret Mead

Next Christmas he was going to open this shabby sack of hers ... and put something in the money compartment. She would fritter it away, of course, in small unimportances; so that in the end she would not know what she had done with it; but perhaps a series of small satisfactions scattered like sequins over the texture of everyday life was of greater worth than the academic satisfaction of owning a collection of fine objects at the back of a drawer. — Josephine Tey

Hittite law emphasized restitution rather than revenge. Humankind lost a certain useful practicality when it chose the other Semitic response - never to forgive and never to forget. — Frank Herbert

The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes ... cities so packed that they will no longer function ... vertical sprawl. — Leon Krier

You can't force chemistry. It's either there or it's not. You can't create it. — Hannah Simone

In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own. — Adolf Hitler

Cabal knew then that he was dealing with the kind of official with whom he always lost his temper. He lost his temper. 'Don't — Jonathan L. Howard

I've got a hangover, okay? So I'm not very ... It's not easy sometimes. — Kirsty Eagar