Sconcertante In Inglese Quotes & Sayings

More likely drinking Coca-Cola... than water will be a symmetry... — Deyth Banger

I believe that reforms will not really take hold if they do not gradually come into the culture of the people. — Mario Monti

the primary purpose of college is to become a learner. — Matthew Sanders

Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle.
[Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.] — George Herbert

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. — W.C. Fields

Why they vote for me is irrelevant, but if they do, they're in safe hands. — Pim Fortuyn

As many people have chronicled, the decision to fight in Vietnam was a years-long accretion of step-by-step choices, each of which could be rationalized at the time. Invading Iraq was an unforced, unnecessary decision to risk everything on a 'war of choice' whose costs we are still paying. — James Fallows

We've made it private, contained it in family, when its audacity is in its potential to cross tribal lines. We've fetishized it as romance, when its true measure is a quality of sustained, practical care. We've lived it as a feeling, when it is a way of being. It is the elemental experience we all desire and seek, most of our days, to give and receive. The sliver of love's potential that the Greeks separated out as eros is where we load so much of our desire, center so much of our imagination about delight and despair, define so much of our sense of completion. There is the love the Greeks called filia - the love of friendship. There is the love they called agape - love as embodied compassion, expressions of kindness that might be given to a neighbor or a stranger. The Metta of the root Buddhist Pali tongue, "lovingkindness," carries the nuance of benevolent, active interest in others known and unknown, and its cultivation begins with compassion towards oneself. — Krista Tippett

He (the Emperor) once said of ancient Earth that there were torches, who were the teachers, but also extinguishers, who were the priests. — Graham McNeill

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. — Red Skelton

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality. — Phil Ochs