Pierino Contro Quotes & Sayings

It speaks of such integrity to refuse to pretend that you're doing well just to help other people deal with the fact that sometimes we face an impossible loss. — Anne Lamott

I have an almost seven year old ... I think it's essential to be consistent with kids. And truthful, without scaring them. I could go on for hours on this one. — Stephen Collins

Players grunt, coaches yell, and pads and helmets crack, creating a frightening symphony of future early-onset dementia. — Nate Jackson

Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it. — Donna Lynn Hope

And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing. Whether working or not, photographers are looking, seeing, and thinking about what they see, a habit that is both a pleasure and a problem, for we seldom capture in a single photograph the full expression of what we see and feel. It is the hope that we might express ourselves fully-and the evidence that other photographers have done so-that keep us taking pictures. — Sam Abell

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons. — Mao Zedong

It was confidently believed that the scientific successes of the industrial revolution could be carried through into the social sciences, particularly with such movements as Marxism. Pseudoscience came with a collection of idealistic nerds who tried to create a tailor-made society, the epitome of which is the central planner. Economics was the most likely candidate for such use of science; you can disguise charlatanism under the weight of equations, and nobody can catch you since there is no such thing as a controlled experiment. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I didn't have to look at him to know I'd just lost everything I'd ever wanted because I felt it. I felt the loss seep into bone and tissue. I felt it settle between the cracks in my heart and the empty holes in my soul. — Julie Bale

The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry. — Muriel Rukeyser