Sabato Quotes & Sayings

Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars? — Ernesto Sabato

I care about looking into someone's eyes and finding out who they are. — Antonio Sabato Jr.

I like music that just gives you goose bumps. — Antonio Sabato Jr.

The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them. — Ernesto Sabato

As I got older, I got closer to my faith and I got closer to Jesus, reading the Bible and living my life under God. — Antonio Sabato Jr.

Greatness is so aggressive, so dramatic! Don't you think it is almost bad manners? — Ernesto Sabato

Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of jealousy, fear and even repulsion, since few people want to discover the horrors that lurk in the depths of their souls. This is the highest mission of great literature, and there is no other. — Ernesto Sabato

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing. — Larry J. Sabato

I try to be a good person every day. If you didn't like me, there would be something wrong with you, because I really go out and work as hard as I can to help people. I put myself last - always. I'm a giver all the way. — Antonio Sabato Jr.

Jewish people are tough people. They believe in something and believe it really strong, and I find it fascinating that a small country like Israel is as powerful as it is. — Antonio Sabato Jr.

The first time I passed through the country (Switzerland) I had the impression it was swept down with a broom from one end to the other every morning by housewives who dumped all the dirt in Italy. — Ernesto Sabato

Politics is a good thing! — Larry J. Sabato

People are trying to decide whether the man-made disaster is worse than Mother Nature's disaster. — Larry Sabato

I always believed in Jesus and God as a little boy. — Antonio Sabato Jr.

I'm a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure. — Antonio Sabato Jr.

On a tiny planet that has been racing toward oblivion for millions of years, we are born amid sorrow; we grow, we struggle, we grow ill, we suffer, we make others suffer, we cry out, we die, others die, and new beings are born to begin the senseless comedy all over again. — Ernesto Sabato

Every election is determined by the people who show up. — Larry Sabato

Vanity is found in the most unlikely places: in combination with kindness, and selflessness, and generosity. — Ernesto Sabato

I have great fans that come up to me, and they just want me to sign stuff. I have a restaurant in Beverly Hills - Prego - and they come in all the time asking for me to see when I'm going to show up. That doesn't really scare me. — Antonio Sabato Jr.

How can you have faith in human nature when you think that a sewer and certain moments of Schumann or Brahms are connected by secret, shadowy, subterranean passageways. — Ernesto Sabato

I've always worked on my own home and different places that I've owned. I really enjoyed it. But I'm a mechanic, a motorcycle and car builder. — Antonio Sabato Jr.

If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention. — Larry J. Sabato

The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it. — Larry J. Sabato

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I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell. — Larry J. Sabato

Only those capable of envisaging utopia will be fit for the decisive battle, that of recovering all the humanity we have lost.
— Ernesto Sabato

I don't consider myself any denomination. — Antonio Sabato Jr.

Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008. — Larry J. Sabato

swung between the purest love and the wildest hatred. In spite of the fact that she gave herself to me without reservation, I would suddenly be overcome with the feeling it was all a sham. For a while she would seem as innocent as a young girl, but suddenly I would be convinced she was a bitch, and then a long parade of doubts would file through my mind: where? how? how many? when? — Ernesto Sabato

The public's imagination is rarely captured by bland temperance. — Larry J. Sabato

I've been driving race cars professionally for a while: 200 mph types of things. — Antonio Sabato Jr.

The national media will talk about (national problems) because it's something that everyone in all 50 states can understand, but the reality is these are minor factors. These are local races ... The issues tend to be less ideological than for Senate races or races for president ... It's about potholes and streetlights. — Larry Sabato

Criminals are the most decent and least offensive people among us. — Ernesto Sabato

Americans in any century can be too inclined to accept consultant-crafted images of flesh-and-blood people. — Larry J. Sabato

A dangerous thesis has taken hold among many in the GOP: that it might be better to lose the '06 election and re-group. In American history, when a faction in the majority party decides the party is tired and could benefit from some time in the wilderness, the voters usually oblige. Most recently, the latest issue of Washington Monthly includes a cover story [link] featuring seven such articles from prominent Republican strategists, insiders and commentators. — Larry Sabato

The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges. — Larry J. Sabato

I consider myself a Christian - a true believer in Jesus Christ - that He died for our sins. — Antonio Sabato Jr.

Skydiving - I love to do that. — Antonio Sabato Jr.

We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections. — Larry J. Sabato

The Republicans I've been talking to have said, 'Oh, the public is cynical about indictments, they happen so often.' Well, that's whistling past the graveyard, because the average voter is only going to remember that one of the big Republican head honchos in Congress was indicted. They won't remember the name or position, but they'll remember it says Congress is corrupt and maybe the majority party is corrupt. — Larry Sabato

When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is. — Antonio Sabato Jr.