Pertini Quotes & Sayings

To transform mankind into a joyful garden, let us bloom like a spring flower. — Debasish Mridha

You can change your home. You know that. You do it every day. — Merrilee Boyack

When a person loses a friend, he consoles himself with the many other friends about him, and if he loses his gold, he meditates for a while and casts misfortune from his mind, especially when he finds himself healthy and still laden with ambition. But when a man loses the ease of his heart, where can he find comfort, and with what can he replace it? What mind can master it? — Kahlil Gibran

Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing. — Elizabeth Peters

Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope. — Alessandro Pertini

It's a funny line when you're walking - the creativity, the subjectivity versus the objectivity, creativity versus the business, and recognizing that you are in the music business, so there are certain things that you have to acquiesce to on the business side and certain creative decisions that you have to make for the purposes of serving the business side of it. — Lupe Fiasco

Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations. — Richard L. Evans

All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it. — Young Jeezy

It isn't necessary to be socialists in order to love Pertini. Whatever he says or does, smells of cleanliness, of loyalty and of sincerity. — Indro Montanelli

Yet it can be recorded, and it can be understood. Indeed, it must be understood so that its like can be prevented in the future. That must be enough for us and for those who, let us hope, shall follow. — Timothy Snyder

I think that a starting pitcher has to do something special to be as valuable or more so than a position player. — Justin Verlander

My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking. — Gerry Abbey

Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about Italians. — Indro Montanelli

Direction, like time, is a general thing, the deprived of boundaries and borders. It is an endless process interception and reinterception, doubling back and adjusting. — Lauren Oliver

During Mr. Reagan's trip to Europe ... members of the traveling press corps watched him doze off so many times
during speeches by French President Francois Mitterrand and Italian President Alessandro Pertini, as well as during a one-on-one audience with the Pope
that they privately christened the trip 'The Big Sleep.' — Mark Hertsgaard