Piermario Morosinis Birthday Quotes & Sayings

When kindhearted people smile, demons shrink and turn away as if tormented by the gesture. But when those beautiful smiles are made to fade, every awful creature in the world stands surer. So do yourself and mankind a favor and smile BIG whether you feel like it or not. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies. — Carl Clinton Van Doren

A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all. — Benjamin Franklin

Pride was his life force; for us it was a live nerve that he could teach us to brush. One stroke, a good practice, and we could tingle for days ... First, he found the pride in each of us, then he taught us how good it could feel. What he was ultimately after was for every one of us to learn to light our own fires and glow our brightest. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race. — Paul Mooney

I have worked ever since I was 13. — Clint Eastwood

Smiley was not opposed to social distinctions but he liked to make his own. — John Le Carre

Hopefully, I can cross over into Hollywood, and hopefully that will bring me a bigger name in China. — Godfrey Gao

All da cows love Leo. — Rick Riordan

When life feels heavy, these two remedies relieve life's complexities: simplicity and purity. Simplicity seeks God. Purity enjoys him. — Thomas A Kempis

If you brave in life, you get the best of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy. — Victoria Moran

Osman and Prideep had been in my employment for some weeks. Every Friday I would take the to lunch. It was the high point of their calender. During the meal I would harangue them as a reminder of what they had been hired for: but my orations never seemed to increase their output. I realised later that, in the East, a commitment to produce does not automatically accompany employment. — Tahir Shah

When a newly acquired State has been accustomed, as I have said, to live under its own laws and in freedom, there are three methods whereby it may be held. The first is to destroy it; the second, to go and reside there in person; the third, to suffer it to live on under its own laws, subjecting it to a tribute, and entrusting its government to a few of the inhabitants who will keep the rest your friends. Such a Government, since it is the creature of the new Prince, will see that it cannot stand without his protection and support, and must therefore do all it can to maintain him; and a city accustomed to live in freedom, if it is to be preserved at all, is more easily controlled through its own citizens than in any other way. — Niccolo Machiavelli