Scivolare Quotes & Sayings

There is hope for the alcoholic: God is able to deliver from this as well as any other addiction. — Billy Graham

I'm your personal jock-blocker, baby." Tori reached into her jeans pocket and handed over a half-eaten Snickers bar. "Happy Douche Liberation Day. — Melissa Landers

It was a strange feeling, like touching a void. — Haruki Murakami

Extraordinary people are ordinary people with extraordinary passion. — Amit Kalantri

Just Remember: The people that say, "your dreams are impossible " have already quit on theirs. — Grant Cardone

I think in terms of educating a group of readers, MFA programs are very good. I just think the model of MFA programs in which a young poet goes through the program, publishes a series of books, gets teaching jobs, that's a bit at risk. — Edward Hirsch

The number one reason for the death of young actors' careers is people get so used to seeing them playing that one character that they can't accept them as anyone else. — Denzel Whitaker

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

'Tis not to make me jealous
To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,
Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well;
Where virtue is, these are more virtuous. — William Shakespeare

You may feel the human realm is a difficult place, but there is surely no better world to live in. You will find another only by going to the nonhuman; and the nonhuman realm would surely be a far more difficult place to inhabit than the human.

So if this best of worlds proves a hard one for you, you must simply do your best to settle in and relax as you can, and make this short life of ours, if only briefly, an easier place in which to make your home. Herein lies the poet's true calling, the artist's vocation. We owe our humble gratitude to all practitioners of the arts, for they mellow the harshness of our human world and enrich the human heart.

Yes, a poem, a painting, can draw the sting of troubles from a troubled world and lay in its place a blessed realm before our grateful eyes. — Soseki Natsume

A lot of what I do - I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them. — Rory Bremner

your shadow has been over me for my whole life. — Stephen King

William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'. — Adrian Desmond

Being dismantled before our eyes are not just individual programs that politicians cite as too expensive but the whole idea that society has a stake in the well-being of children down the block and the security of families on the other side of town. Whether or not kids eat well, are nurtured and have a roof over their heads is not just a consequence of how their parents behave. It is also a responsibility of society
but now apparently a diminishing one. — Richard Stolley