Salotto Translation Quotes & Sayings

A person's integrity develops early in life. Once formed, it is difficult to alter, change, or improve. — Scott K. Edinger

You must reflect that fettered prisoners only at first feel the weight of the shackles on their legs: in time, when they have decided not to struggle against but to bear them, they learn from necessity to endure with fortitude, and from habit to endure with ease. — Seneca.

What is our task in this world as children of God and brothers and sisters of Jesus? Our task is reconciliation. Wherever we go we see divisions among people - in families, communities, cities, countries, and continents. All these divisions are tragic reflections of our separation from God. The truth that all people belong together as members of one family under God is seldom visible. Our sacred task is to reveal that truth in the reality of everyday life. Why is that our task? Because God sent Jesus to reconcile us with God and to give us the task of reconciling people with one another. As people reconciled with God through Jesus we have been given the ministry of reconciliation (see 2 Corinthians 5:18). So whatever we do the main question is, Does it lead to reconciliation among people? — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next. — Arthur Miller

Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how to sing, but she was definitely the first person to inspire me to sing and the first to intrigue me vocally. I've always had a natural ear for music, though. — Elliott Yamin

To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself. — William Osler

The sight of her made him understand why he'd lost his faith in God. — Sarah Langan

if everyone is a genius, then nobody is. I — Eric Weiner

And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit. — Michael Newdow

You're right, super-realism is back in style. — Robert Genn

There's something that happens in that delivery room, when a woman becomes ten times more a woman, and a guy becomes six times less a man. You feel really dopey and useless and like a spectator. I did, anyway. — Paul Reiser

She's a monstrously perfect result of the system: the completest proof of its triumph — Edith Wharton

Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife — Confucius

Corsets are always hard to wear. — Lily James

Let's get going," Towser urged.
"Where do you want to go?"
"Anywhere," said Towser. "Just start going and see where we end up. I have a feeling ... well, a feeling-"
"Yes, I know," said Fowler.
For he had the feeling, too. The feeling of high destiny. A certain sense of greatness. A knowledge that somewhere off beyond the horizons lay adventure and things greater than adventure. — Clifford D. Simak