Ranuccio Tomassoni Quotes & Sayings

People come up to me and share very personal and intimate things with me, and I am so touched by all the trust they have in me. — Tim Gunn

But wishes don't make policy. Policy is made by reality, and the reality of what has been created, whether intentionally or not, can't be abandoned without breathtakingly severe consequences. — George Friedman

Of course there are mothers,
squeezing their breasts
dry, pawning their bodies,
shedding teeth for their children,
or that's our fond belief.
But remember - Hansel
and Gretel were dumped in the forest
because their parents were starving. — Margaret Atwood

Sometime you have to think deeper before you want to think about something. — M.F. Moonzajer

The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better. — Edsger Dijkstra

Spellwork is a form of creation. Manifesting the invisible and the imaginable into real life verifiable forms, through perfectly natural means. — Dacha Avelin

I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity. — Edgar Allan Poe

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book. — Jean Craighead George

Some women bristle, in certain contexts, at being called female: it seems to focus exclusively on the reproductive system, and makes you feel like a chicken, all thighs and breasts. — Mary Norris

What shall I tell you of the years that ensued? You know well the recent history of this beleaguered country. I need not to rehash for you those dark days. I tire at the mere thought of writing it, and, besides, the suffering of this country has already been sufficiently chronicled, and by pens far more learned and eloquent than mine.
I can sum it up in one word: war. Or rather, wars. Not one, not two, but many wars, both big and small, just and unjust, wars with shifting casts of supposed heroes and villains, each new hero making one increasingly nostalgic for the old villain. — Khaled Hosseini

A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The pain of defeat is bitter to him; he suffers at indifference and becomes desperate with loneliness. After all this has passed, he licks his wounds and begins everything anew. A warrior knows that war is made of many battles: he goes on — Paulo Coelho

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities. — Muhammad Yunus

Heraldry: Sources, symbols, and meaning — Ottfried Neubecker

strength floods in after a fall. — Mark Helprin

You must become your enemy to truly understand him. — Felix O. Hartmann