Richiamo Degli Quotes & Sayings

Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect a little more narrowly these living existences, the only beings worth regarding. How hostile and destructive to each other! How insufficient all of them for their own happiness! How contemptible or odious to the spectator! The whole presents nothing but the idea of a blind Nature, inpregnated by a great vivifying principle, and pouring forth from her lap, without discernment or parental care, her maimed and abortive children. — David Hume

Empathy for the people you're working with and being aware of their needs ... that's the "big kahuna" in managing people. — Barbara Corcoran

The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play it some day, and for a minute you feel a happy pain, but you don't know why. Bird felt like that. — Katherine Catmull

I give you five minutes to spare your blushes. here is the little bronze key that opens the ebony caskets on the mantle piece in the Louise-Phillipe room. In one of the caskets you will find a scorpion, in the other, a grasshopper, both very cleverly imitated in Japanese bronze: they will say yes or no for you. If you turn the scorpion round, that will mean to me, when I return that you have said yes. The grasshopper will mean no ... The grasshopper, be careful of the grass hopper! A grasshopper does not only turn: it hops! It hops! And it hops jolly high! — Gaston Leroux

God's people need to study the prophetic Scriptures so they can both be prepared themselves and help others prepare for His coming. — Tim LaHaye

You do have me. Every part of me. You always have. You just don't want me. — Alison G. Bailey

The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go. — Helen Prejean

The whole point of being happy is not feeling like you have a job. I'm sure there are days where you're at your job and you're like, "Oh my god, this is hard." — Justin Vernon

My mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I've always been a tennis fan. — Tom Brady

The child doesn't just live in his environment, it becomes a part of him. — Paula Polk Lillard

A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H.L. Mencken

Mother nature changes her looks for the same reason any woman changes her looks - to be noticed. — Richelle E. Goodrich