Pichetti Pergamino Quotes & Sayings

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. — Henry David Thoreau

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one. — Benjamin Franklin

No man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till each depends upon herself. — Anandi Gopal Joshi

I had always known what I wanted, and that was beauty ... in every form ... a beautiful house, beautiful man, a beautiful life and image. I was ambitious to get the money which would attain all that for me. — Joan Crawford

I am terribly fascinated with things that I don't understand. — Richard Saul Wurman

I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy ... Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization, and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo. — Lord Acton

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

What's when you rap and don't appreciate the art?
What's when you sell out just to get a start?
What's when you make bullshit just for the charts?
What's when you rap, but it's not from the heart?
What's when you're hardcore, then you turn pop?
When you steal ideas to get props?
When you sell out to be on top?
What's when you front like you're hard, but you're not?
That's a gimmick. — Lord Finesse

The passion of love separated its victim terribly from everyone but the loved object. — Henry James

... for there are times when disobedience heals a very ailing part of the self. It relieves the human spirit's distress at being forced into narrow boundaries. For the nearly powerless, defying authority is often the only power available. — Malidoma Patrice Some