Portelli Bruno Quotes & Sayings

Many people in our community protect themselves from inconvenience as though inconvenience is deadly. We have decided that we are not inconvenienced by inconvenience. The needs of children come up unexpectedly. We are sure that the Good Samaritan had other plans that fateful day. Our plans are not sacred (p. 126). — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

The transience of human feeling is nothing short of ludicrous. My mercurial fluctuations in the course of a single evening made me feel as if I had a character made pf chewing gum. I had fallen into the ugly depths of self-pity, a terrain just above the even more hideous lowlands of despair. Then, easily distracted twit that I am, I had, soon after, found myself on maternal heights, where I had practically swooned with pleasure as I bobbed and fondled the borrowed homunculus next door. I had eaten well, drunk too much wine, and embraced a young woman I hardly knew. In short, I had thoroughly enjoyed myself and had every intention of doing so again. [p. 59] — Siri Hustvedt

Butterflys are free — Unknown Author 848

To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs. — Bernie Siegel

I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about. — John Green

Our industry expertise (at KKR) enables the firm not only to make better investment choices but also to win the confidence of senior management and sellers, which has enabled us to purchase many companies on an exclusive basis. — Henry Kravis

My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money. — Jesmyn Ward

We must not sacrifice one of our remaining untamed places in reckless pursuit of oil. We know we have to leave oil in the ground, or destructive climate change will become unstoppable. If not in the pristine and vulnerable Arctic Ocean, then where? — Frances Beinecke

Leaders learn to leverage the problems that never go away in a way to create progress for the organization. — Andy Stanley

Do not feel arrogant that you have a dick and women do not. Women are not scared of fucking; they are only scared of raping. — M.F. Moonzajer

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal. — Herbert Spencer

When asked where God is, people point towards the sky or some far and distant region: no wonder then that He does not manifest Himself! Realize that He is in you, with you, behind you, and all around you; and He can be seen and felt everywhere. — Sathya Sai Baba

No fool can be silent at a feast. — Solon

I grew up in a really small town, so it wasn't really a fashion-forward place, and it was very casual. — Behati Prinsloo