Protezione Civile Quotes & Sayings

Allegorical Fall As we know from the remarks at the beginning of this present work and spread throughout, even in antiquity not all believers thought the Bible was entirely historical. Speaking of Philo's allegorical interpretation of the fall of mankind as found in Genesis, for example, Geddes recounted a list of others in antiquity who understood biblical tales as cosmological and allegorical, not literal: — D.M. Murdock

To be alive, to able to see, to walk ... it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle. — Arthur Rubinstein

Are you sexually active?' 'No. I usually just lie back and think of the Spartans. — Jodi Taylor

Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness. — Francis Bacon

I tell myself that, regardless of what source I draw on, I'm writing a new work for reasons peculiar to me and not an adaptation, and so feel, in the end, justified in singing it my way. — Norman Lock

Hunger of choice is a painful luxury; hunger of necessity is terrifying torture. — Mike Mullin

I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces. — Tommy Lee Jones

My late Uncle Henry, you see, was by way of being the blot on the Wooster escutcheon. An extremely decent chappie personally, and one who had always endeared himself to me by tipping me with considerable lavishness when I was at school; but there's no doubt he did at times do rather rummy things, notably keeping eleven pet rabbits in his bedroom; and I suppose a purist might have considered him more or less off his onion. In fact, to be perfectly frank, he wound up his career, happy to the last and completely surrounded by rabbits, in some sort of a home. — P.G. Wodehouse

The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom. — Edward Abbey

God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise. — Walter De La Mare

Despite spending more time with themselves than with any other person, people often have surprisingly poor insight into their skills and abilities. — Anonymous

I try to tell young people to get in shape now, because it's easier. If you're 30 and want to drop 10 pounds, all you have to do is just walk. — Michelle Obama