Settimio Consulting Quotes & Sayings

He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball. I wanted him to study hard and get into a government service. But, he wanted to do something in cricket and earn a name for himself. — Bill Vaughan

Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus. — Dana Gould

Translation was never possible. Instead there was always only conquest, the influx of the language of hard nouns, the language of metal, the language of either/or, the one language that has eaten all the others. — Margaret Atwood

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

Physical attraction did its part to glue them together, but something stronger than sexual attraction sealed the bond. When men and women grow apart, it is for the same reason they are drawn together; because they are finally, inherently too different. Friendships among women, on the other hand, were burdened by similarity. — Galt Niederhoffer

Man will believe anything, as long as it's not in the bible. — Napoleon Bonaparte

We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment ... One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good lad. You did well, Spook. I'm proud. — Brandon Sanderson

Tis easiest dealing with the firmest mind
More just when it resists, and, when it yields, more kind. — George Crabbe

Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I. — John Dryden