Riflettore Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent. — Dalai Lama

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power. — Otto Von Bismarck

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems to share: that at a certain point one has enough, that you can derive as much pleasure from a Picasso hanging in a museum as from one that's hanging in your den, that you can get an awfully good meal in a restaurant for less than twenty dollars, and that once your drapes cost more than the average American's yearly salary, then you can afford to pay a bit more in taxes. — Barack Obama

The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people. — Susan Sontag

Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards — Andrei Tarkovsky

If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced. — Samuel Johnson

Gion had tried to use logic on Cross and it had been like reasoning with a cement wall on meth. — Cassandra Gannon

We'd made the wise choice, done the right thing. I had to believe that logic would bring comfort in time. Tonight, there was just this too-quiet room, the ache of loss, knowledge deep and final as the tolling of a bell: Something good has gone. — Leigh Bardugo

Second, the only proven technique for treatment for chemically dependent people involves use of a spiritual program of self-change. — Virgil Miller Newton