Ottimo Furniture Quotes & Sayings

The crisis of history in France, is a crisis of social bond, a crisis of citizenship. A citizen is the heir of a past more or less mythified, but he makes his own, whatever his personal genealogy. Today, under the pretext that the country has undergone considerable changes, some would like to transform the past in order to adopt it to the new face of France. Nothing, however, will make the past anything other than what it was. To pretend to change history is a totalitarian project: One who has control of the past has control over the future, one who has control over the present has control over the past, as George Orwell wrote in 1984. — Jean Sevillia

Sure! A relationship with the Almighty is not impossible. We must realize that one's approach to the Presence of Almighty Being, who is absolutely unseen, is possible by means of fortification of spiritual power via one's complete faith in His Self-reliant Being. — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

[ ... ] Says it with his head on! Mr. Stryver remarked upon the peculiarity as if it would have been infinitely less remarkable if he had said it with his head off. — Charles Dickens

Books aren't easy. If you want easy, watch the fucking movie. — T. Rafael Cimino

The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it. — Ernest Hemingway,

He tried to get the Caddy to run some of the life-organizing protocols, but they were pretty useless without connectivity. — Charlie Jane Anders

Call time out when you need help and ask the Coach for help. Don't wait. Do it when you need it. — Paul H. Dunn

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping. — Dana Delany

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters. What makes them slaves is the fact that they now are, and are always hereafter to be, in the hands of men whose power over them is, and always is to be, absolute and irresponsible.6 — Lysander Spooner

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create. — David Mamet

Rees, the secret of a Scientist is not what he knows. It's what he asks. — Stephen Baxter

I am a marathon runner. I ran the New York City marathon and almost died. I tried to run, like, a two-minute mile early on in the race. I was crazy enough to think I could win. After seven miles I thought I would die, but I slowed down my pace and kept going. — Sean Combs

There was never a recorded Iraqi terrorists in the last 20 years in any terrorist attack. There were no terrorists in Iraq until we invaded it. — Jodie Evans

If somebody is smoking a joint in a movie, I say it's a cigarette - a big cigarette if it's a Cheech and Chong movie. — Eminem

Remembering the Mystery is a way of being everything you always already are. — Adi Da