Partecipazione Sinonimi Quotes & Sayings

If an aristocrat became bankrupt he looked to the sunshine of royal providence [ ... ] but when the nobility sank too low to qualify for royal notice, they became fraudsters, trading on the display of rank: the man would become a card-sharper or gigolo, while the woman sold herself. Actual work would have been unthinkable. It would have offended against the ancient order of things, which assigned that role to the middle classes and the peasantry. This concept is difficult to connect with our modern view of the world, but its very absurdity follows directly from the fact that everything in its old order was so firm and wonderful - with everything in its eternally appointed place and moving in fixed circles like the stars. There was no changing your lot in life at will: it was assigned to you forever, by birth. If you fell below your appointed station, you couldn't just swap it for another - you simply plummeted into the void. — Antal Szerb

Twitter has to be about art. It can't be about banal things. Banal things and art are two different worlds. — Alex Scally

They all went indoors with their new friends, and found rooms so small as none but those who invite from the heart could think capable of accommodating so many. — Jane Austen

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul. - Walt Whitman — Laurie A. Helgoe

We have an infinite ability to make an impact but we have a finite time here to make a difference and to leave some sort of legacy — Thomas Narofsky

We might say that the dream tranforms the dreamer; that it possesses the ability to 'initiate', to bestow new meaning, to motivate new beginnings (Latin: initium - beginning), to permit our entrance (literally 'en-trance'; Latin: inire init - to go in) to new orders of relation between ourselves and the 'other'. — Andrew D. Chumbley

Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan't make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this. — Vita Sackville-West

But why will God not speak to me? ... I think when God is silent, He wants us to prove in our hearts that we are willing to follow Him no matter the cost. If all answers were crystal-clear, how could we show our devotion to Him? — Jennifer Beckstrand

10For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying s to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a t servant [2] of Christ. — Anonymous

So that she could be by his side, make him smile as she laughed, weave tales by lamplight, and share secrets in the dark. So that she could fall asleep in his arms and awaken to a brilliant tomorrow. — Renee Ahdieh

I was one of the haves, and one of the secrets of being a have is not wasting your time on empathy. — Peter S. Beagle