Ripartenza Quotes & Sayings

I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The astronomer's rule of thumb:
if you didn't write it down, it didn't happen — Clifford Stoll

We didn't talk about the decision at all, which was great, just to get together as friends. The only thing he said to me was 'It's your decision. Just do what you have to do and I will back you 100 per cent. — Craig Stevens

The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with a red hot iron. I have to pick up the incandescent metal and burn my own hand while burning the other person. Hate itself is the seed of death in my own heart while it seeks death of another. Love is the seed of life in my own heart while it seeks the good of another. — Thomas Merton

The more tremendous the divinity is represented, the more tame and submissive do men become his ministers: And the more unaccountable the measures of acceptance required by him, the more necessary does it become to abandon our natural reason, and yield to their ghostly guidance and direction. — David Hume

The goods of the earth are meant for everyone. — Pope Francis

The water of the river is the calmest, where the deepest. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort. — Napoleon Hill

She was his wife, mother, best friend, sister, lover, and priest. — Dennis Lehane

Wall is a frontier for the cow but not for the bird! What makes something frontier for you is the abilities you possess! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Perhaps the moral of the story is that as uncivilized as we humans so often act, we are ultimately civilized beings. The sad thing is that so many of the people who got off the trail in this fashion would have been perfectly happy if they could have just forced themselves to hoist their pack, hitch back to the trail, and take the very first few steps. The challenge simply lay in beginning. — Bill Walker