Savonarolas Republic Quotes & Sayings

Life's been good to me. Why am I so lonely and bored? I used to wonder why so many rich men commit suicide. I no longer wonder. — O.J. Simpson

We have everywhere an absence of memory. Architects sometimes talk of building with context and continuity in mind, religious leaders call it tradition, social workers say it's a sense of community, but it is memory we have banished from our cities. We have speed and power, but no place. Travel, but no destination. Convenience, but no ease. — Howard Mansfield

There are only two guidelines in good sex, don't do anything you don't really enjoy and find out what are your partner needs and don't balk them if you can help it. — Alex Comfort

[On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize. — Bernice Rubens

We are type designers, punch cutters, wood cutters, type founders, compositors, printers, and book binders from conviction and with passion, not because we are insufficiently talented for other higher things, but because for us the highest things stand in close kinship to those ends — Rudolph Koch

Which means, therefore, that our Bible reading is never just for seeing, never just for learning and doctrine. It is not even just for savoring, if that savoring is thought of in a private way that leaves us unchanged in our relationship with others. No. We read the Bible - we always read the Bible - for the kind of seeing and savoring Christ that transforms us into his likeness. — John Piper

It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the whole work, and so does free choice - with this one qualification: That whereas the whole is done in free choice, so is the whole done of grace. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life. — Hunter S. Thompson

My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours. — Yotam Ottolenghi

When in doubt, tell the truth. When in pain, listen to the wind. — Nanao Sakaki

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous. — Winston S. Churchill

To burn the ideal of a great love into the soul of youth in letters of fire - that is to give him a real moral strength. — Ellen Key

The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change. — Ariel Sharon

By making yourself a life-long leaner you'll keep discovering new and exciting things about yourself and others. — Rachel Robins

The biggest life change any man would ever experience was the ending of it. — John Connolly