Quaranta In Italian Quotes & Sayings

Roses bloom whether you praise them or not. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The last book I picked up had a picture of the Stranger on the front cover. Although his eyes were not nearly as beautiful in my dream state, they still took my breath away. I opened it up curiously and there was one word written in a large, bolded font: FATE. — Markelle Grabo

People buy-into what they can understand quickly. If it takes you a long time to make your point, most people think you don't have one! — Garrison Wynn

How is selfworth measured today? By the amount of likes a post gets, by how many friends we collect, by how many retweets we accumulate? Do we even know what we really think until we post our thoughts online and let others tell us if they are worthy? — Kasie West

Our social mission as a manufacturer is only realized when products reach, are used by, and satisfy the customer ... We need to take the customer's skin temperature daily. — Konosuke Matsushita

I started writing stories as a child. — Danielle Steel

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school. — John Knowles

I like 'Guys and Dolls,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'A Star Is Born.' When it works, a musical is an amazing thing. But it rarely works. — John Carney

Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. — Rafael Cruz

Magic was not an answer; it was an excuse to avoid looking for one. — Frances Hardinge

A question is a pursuit, an invitation to envision and explore a series of possibilities, to struggle and empathize and doubt and believe. The question moves, whereas our sense of what an answer is can often be static, a stopping point. — Tracy K. Smith

It seemed no amount of praying could diminish the plague's wrath. By the time city officials realized it was the rats that were causing the disease, it was too late, but Venice still enforced a decree by which all incoming vessels had to anchor offshore for a full forty days before they would be permitted to unload. To this day, the number forty - quaranta in Italian - served as a grim reminder of the origins of the word quarantine. — Dan Brown

He could no longer pretend not to have been brought to his knees by her blows, and he could no longer avoid the sentiments that his heart forced him to feel. — Llarjme

He is prepared, each day, to confront his own self-sabotage. — Steven Pressfield