Olivetti Lettera Quotes & Sayings

Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives. — John Zerzan

When it is time to die, let us not discover that we never lived. — Henry David Thoreau

People always have an opinion. Doesn't mean it's right, doesn't mean it's wrong, but we have to respect their opinion. — Michael Clarke Duncan

Many enlightened persons are never very well known. Many are reclusive. They live in little villages in India or up in the high Himalayas in Tibet. Some have no students at all. Some have a few. — Frederick Lenz

We do not choose our destinies. Yet we must ... we must do our duty, no? Great or small, we must do our duty. — George R R Martin

Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal. — Lucretius

I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit. That's all. But I like sweets. — Sophia Loren

I'm under the impression that this notion of decency is disappearing from our society where conflicts are made worse on cinema and on television, where people are nasty and cruel on the Internet and where, in general, everybody seems to be very angry. — Helen Mirren

And the chewing and swallowing imbue me with an unadulterated sense of donkey delight. — Mo Yan

People tend to find their destiny, no matter what world they're in. — Claudia Gray

How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would come when we should have no more hope, and yet be unable to die — Vera Brittain

The flames had passed over those flattened blades and consumed their heather neighbours on either side while they themselves had remained, made proof against the blaze and guaranteed their stark survival just by their earlier oppression. — Iain Banks

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas. — Ralph Ellison

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography. — Nicolas Roeg

Let us be poised, wise and our own today. — Ralph Waldo Emerson