Severio Quotes & Sayings

Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric takes the next grand step and brings all these subjects together into one whole. — William Blake

All you have to go on is the faith of a kiss. — Whitney Otto

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate ... — Clay Shirky

Like madness is the glory of this life. — William Shakespeare

A woman can grow a baby inside her body. Then a woman can deliver the baby through her body. Then, by some miracle, a woman can feed a baby with her body. When you compare that to the male's contribution to life, it's kind of embarrassing, really. The father is always like, Hey, I helped, too. For like five seconds. — Jim Gaffigan

Love does as it undoes. It goes after with equal tenacity: joy and heartbreak.
Her happiness was his unhappiness and that's the unfair way it was. — Jandy Nelson

If you want twenty minutes of quality time with someone you love, schedule three or four hours with him or her one afternoon, and chances are, somewhere in the middle of that three or four hours you will have your twenty minutes of quality time. When — Matthew Kelly

By letting go with gratitude, you are not losing anything, but you are gaining the wisdom, present moment, and future of endless possibilities. — Debasish Mridha

There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live. — James Frey

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties. — R. Buckminster Fuller

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy. — Gene Kelly

It's strange how fear works. It suddenly stands at your shoulder, and slides its arm around you. Its fist closes on your heart. — Michael Ford

I call on the Australian Government to set out the conditions upon which they will provide a taxpayer funded backing for wholesale term funding for Australian deposit taking institutions. I call on the Government it make clear the conditions upon which taxpayer funds will be used in this way. — Julie Bishop