Passeggiando Quotes & Sayings

Be thankful, Lincoln. Money is a cruel
thing. It's the thing that stands between you
and the things you want and the people you
love."
"How does money come between you and
the people you love?"
"It's coming between us right now. — Rainbow Rowell

Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight. — Natalie Clifford Barney

The choice is not between the current crisis and blissful isolation. The choice is between the current crisis and an orderly, managed system of mass migration. You can have one or the other. There is no easy middle ground — Patrick Kingsley

You could be the perfect spy. All you need is a cause. — John Le Carre

It is impossible to bring more into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are all negative emotions. — Rhonda Byrne

Writer or a musician, not knowing that it was possible — James McBride

A story unwritten is without beginning or end. But in its potential lies another story; and in the heartbeat before pen meets page, both stories exist at once, reflecting endless permutations of the other, before one of them disappears forever. — Nenia Campbell

People can learn to be more optimistic by acting as if they were more optimistic. — Suzanne C. Segerstrom

If you learn to develop an abundant mentality you will not be envious of others, you will celebrate their successes, you share in their joys and pains; don't see life as a competition but a complimentary. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

The worst job in the whole world must be recycling toilet paper. — Chuck Palahniuk

Time is the most valuable thing you have - and I'm not just talking about the minutes for which you're paid. — Eli Broad

And if I were to open you up - would you see anything less remarkable? Less intricately dazzling, in its squelching, spongy way? Lungs and heart and spleen, and all the rest - ticking away, as it were? Yet you walk down the boulevard, and pass any number of such wonderful devices, all ticking away as they walk, and think it no great marvel. — K.W. Jeter

This is how Raimbaut saw him, as with quick assured movements he arranged the pine cones in a triangle, then in squares on the sides of the triangle, and obstinately compared the pine cones on the shorter sides of the triangle with those of the square of the hypotenuse. Raimbaut realised that all this moved by ritual, convention, formulas, and beneath it there was ... what? He felt a vague sense of discomfort come over him at knowing himself to be outside all these rules of a game. But then his wanting to avenge his father's death, his ardor to fight, to enroll himself among Charlemagne's warriors - wasn't that also a ritual to prevent plunging into the void, like this raising and setting of pine cones by Sir Agilulf? Oppressed by the turmoil of such unexpected questions, young Raimbaut flung himself to the ground and burst into tears. — Italo Calvino