Sfide Braccio Quotes & Sayings

I distrust great men ... I believe in aristocracy, though. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet ... They are sensitive for others as well as for themselves, they are considerate without being fussy, their pluck is not swankiness but the power to endure and they can take a joke. — E. M. Forster

Forgive your enemies, but first get even. — Lester Cole

Albus Dumbledore was never proud or vain; he could find something to value in anyone, — J.K. Rowling

There's this quote -
"if there's anything I have learnt about life is that IT MOVES ON"
let me tell you, these three words are only first half of the story. The other half is these five words -
"YOU HAVE TO LET GO"
If you continue to cling to your past, how will your life Ever move on. Some effort is required from your end too. — Mansi Laus Deo

Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas. — Dale Spender

I'm not saying Senator Mitchell's report is entirely wrong. I am saying Brian McNamee's statements about me are wrong. Let me be clear: I have never taken steroids or HGH. — Jim Lehrer

I wanna work; I love so much making films; I hope I can do one after the other. Being on set is what makes me happy, so ... The more I can, the better. — Alice Braga

History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that enabled success. — Scott Berkun

Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle. — Ben Lewin

A very great deal is written about the future of book publishing - much more than on its present or past - and the only takeaway from all these oracles seems to be that a great empire will be destroyed. — Dave Morris

[I]n the abstract, we may envision an Olympian perfection of perfect beings in Washington doing the business of their employers, the people, but any of us who has ever been at a zoning meeting with our property at stake is aware of the urge to cut through all the pernicious bullshit and go straight to firearms. — David Mamet

A jeweler will prefer the smallest fragment of diamond to several sapphires; and so, in the order established by God, our intimacy with Him gives Him more glory than all possible good, procured by us, for a great number of souls, but to the detriment of our own progress. Our Heavenly Father, "who devotes Himself more to the direction of a soul in which He reigns, than to the natural government of the whole universe and to the civil government of all empires," looks for this harmony in our zeal. — Jean-Baptiste Chautard

The future is here - it just has not been uniformly distributed. — William Gibson

It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision. — Max Planck

I don't want to be one of many stations you pass through." Paused, "I want to be the central station." He fell silent. — Aleksandr Voinov