Oronzo De Matteis Quotes & Sayings

They could feel the majesty of God, His glory and His almightiness. They could feel that man was just a puppet, moving and talking only because of the puppeteer. Man moved because the puppeteer moved him: man talked because the puppeteer talked. But how many understood this and want to move or talk in accordance with God's wishes and will. — Soewito Santoso

Father Ratti had often explained, in Religious Knowledge class, that true humility did not mean a sense of worthlessness or the kind of timidity that caused some people to be cheated and bullied all their lives. The virtue of humility, Ratti said, was merely the faculty of intelligence operating properly "The man of wisdom," Ratti explained once, "fears only one man on earth. Do you know who that is?" And when everybody guessed wrong - some said the Pope, some said King Ferdinand - Ratti said, "The man of wisdom fears himself. He knows who it is who tells him the most plausible lies, the lies he wants to believe. — Robert Anton Wilson

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. — Edgar Allan Poe

A good friend is the one who is there for you, when everyone has turn their back on you — Beta Metani'Marashi

Being a journalist influenced me as a novelist. I mean, a lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible. — Kurt Vonnegut

It's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you're offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter. — Neil Patrick Harris

Someone once asked him if there was any sport he didn't like, and he replied "Politics. They should stop showing that on TV. — Fredrik Backman

we should also consider the remoter analogy of the animals. Many birds and animals, especially the carnivorous, have only one mate, and the love and care of offspring which seems to be natural is inconsistent with the primitive theory of marriage. If we go back to an imaginary state in which men were almost animals and the companions of them, we have as much right to argue from what is animal to what is human as from the barbarous to the civilized man. The record of animal life on the globe is fragmentary, - the connecting links are wanting and cannot be supplied; the record of social life is still more fragmentary and precarious. Even if we admit that our first ancestors had no such institution as marriage, still the stages by which men passed from outer barbarism to the comparative civilization of China, Assyria, and Greece, or even of the ancient Germans, are wholly unknown to us. Such — Plato

Today, I will let things happen without worrying about the significance of each event. I will trust that this will bring about my growth faster than running around with a microscope. I will trust my lessons to reveal themselves in their own time. — Melody Beattie

I want to kiss you so bad. But There's nothing here. You're not really here, are you?
-Bliss — Melissa De La Cruz

Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are — Curnonsky