Orizzonti Letti Quotes & Sayings

There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart. — Victor Hugo

I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice.
You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense. — Warren Buffett

Americans now considered the danger of surveillance of greater concern than the danger of terrorism: Overall, 47% say their greater concern about government anti-terrorism policies is that they have gone too far in restricting the average person's civil liberties, while 35% say they are more concerned that policies have not gone far enough to protect the country. This is the first time in Pew Research polling that more have expressed concern over civil liberties than protection from terrorism since the question was first asked in 2004. — Glenn Greenwald

In all our academies we attempt far too much ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Let there be an end to thought. Thus do I refute Descartes.' I sprawled, not a cogito or a sum to my name. — Roger Zelazny

Shut your fucking trap, Hawk — Kristen Ashley

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man. — Thomas Paine

Now famous and later on the junk yard. — Deyth Banger

That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate. — Carl Jung

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment. — Janette Turner Hospital

Really a bad guy is more interesting, dramatically, than the good guy. — Kirk Douglas

A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us? — Plutarch

Oddly enough, many people struggle to learn how to pray because they are focusing on praying, not on God. — Paul E. Miller