Patricelli Family Foundation Quotes & Sayings

The world is starving for American leadership. But America has an anti-war president, — John Boehner

A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released. — Robert Penn Warren

Solara: You know, you say you've been walking for thirty years, right?
Eli: Right?
Solara: Have you ever thought that maybe you were lost?
Eli: Nope.
Solara: Well, how do you know that you're walking in the right direction?
Eli: I walk by faith, not by sight.
Solara: [sighs] What does that mean?
Eli: It means that you know something even if you don't know something.
Solara: That doesn't make any sense.
Eli: It doesn't have to make sense. It's faith, it's faith. It's the flower of light in the field of darkness that's giving me the strength to carry on. You understand?
Solara: Is that from your book?
Eli: No, it's, uh, Johnny Cash, Live at Folsom Prison. — Book Of Eli Movie

The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect. — Charles Nodier

Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category. — Anita Baker

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder. — William S. Burroughs

Seven days without love makes one weak. — Drake

I want to love like a rain drop loves the earth. — Debasish Mridha

Yet if anyone cares to read over the now crumbling minutes giving an account of the meetings at which the Italian Fasci di Combattimento were founded, he will find not a doctrine but a series of pointers ... It may be objected that this program implies a return to the guilds (corporazioni). No matter! ... I therefore hope this assembly will accept the economic claims advanced by national syndicalism. — Benito Mussolini

If there really is some day discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices - that is, an explanation of what they depend upon, by what laws they arise, how they develop, what they are aiming at in one case and in another and so on, that is a real mathematical formula - then, most likely, man will at once cease to feel desire, indeed, he will be certain to. For who would want to choose by rule? Besides, he will at once be transformed from a human being into an organ-stop or something of that sort; for what is a man without desires, without freewill and without choice, if not a stop in an organ? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

the all too human need to conjure symbolic meaning from meaningless events. — Steven Erikson

Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree. — Elizabeth I

Yoga is your direct intimacy with the nurturing power of Life. It is the practical means adapted to personal needs, age, health and all cultures. — Mark Whitwell

I pressed her thigh and death smiled — Jim Morrison