Picturi Peisaje Quotes & Sayings

I made my fortune by being able to spot a certain kind of man. — Ayn Rand

Close and difficult to realize is the god, but where danger abounds, grows what saves. — Friedrich Holderlin

Felix has always believed that if there is one thing in life that is fated it is our birth, that far-fetched conspiracy of circumstances which have to occur in order for us to get born. — Glenn Haybittle

A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion. — John C. Wright

I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue. — Mark Millar

At the other end of the room the three old men discussed infirmities; exchanging symptoms in undertones as boys might speak of lust. — Shirley Hazzard

In more than half of American homes where there are both children and firearms, according to a 2000 study, the weapons are in an unlocked place, and in more than 40 percent of homes, guns without a trigger lock are in an unlocked place. Almost three-quarters of children under the age of ten who live in homes with guns say they know where the guns are. A 2005 study showed that more than 1.69 million children and youth under eighteen live in homes with weapons that are loaded and unlocked. According to a Department of Education study, 65% of school shootings between 1974 and 2000 were carried out with a gun from the attacker's home or the home of a relative. And the laws, it seems, are effective. One study indicated that in the twelve states where child-access prevention laws were on the books for at least one year, unintentional gun deaths fell by 23 percent. — Gary Younge

I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in. — Philip Larkin