Silipigno Mansion Quotes & Sayings

Semi-automatic weapons are not just about gun control, they're about national security. You know that these weapons can shoot down airplanes, they can blow up railroads. This is really a whole national security issue. — Jesse Jackson

My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler. — John Oliver

Love before faction. — Veronica Roth

The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable possession of mankind — Theodorus Gaza

[It is a] happy truth that man is capable of self-government, and only rendered otherwise by the moral degradation designedly superinduced on him by the wicked acts of his tyrant. — Thomas Jefferson

As part of the logic of human sociality, the internal cohesion of a group is in direct proportion to the degree of threat it perceives from the outside. It follows that anyone who wants to unite a nation, especially one that has been deeply fractured, must demonise an adversary or, if necessary, invent an enemy. For the Turks it was the Armenians. For the Serbs it was the Muslims. For Stalin it was the bourgeoisie or the counter-revolutionaries. For Pol Pot it was the capitalists and intellectuals. For Hitler it was Christian Europe's eternal Other, the Jews. — Jonathan Sacks

An Elizabeth in brain and a Mary Stuart in spirit. — Thomas Hardy

But he had no idea what sort of darkness lurked inside her, or what sort of monster she was willing to become in order to make things right. — Sarah J. Maas

This relationship [your relationship with God] is far more critical than your marriage. And it's everlasting. — Francis Chan

Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times. — Nick Mancuso

Nothing lasts forever. But there is new life; new colours, fresh words, new tunes to compose. There is now; time present, time future. We build with new bricks and hope our voices are heard, our music is sung and our love cherished for as long as it is offered. — Carol Drinkwater

Once someone has bound your heart, he's the only person who can let it loose again. — Charles Baxter

People constantly face problems they've never seen before, and they have to solve them somehow. So a million people come up with a million solutions that are just a little bit different. If computing is being done by fewer resources, there will be enormous security gains by pushing things into standard practices. — Whitfield Diffie

As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred. — Margaret Cavendish

If beauty is only skin deep, look really, really hard. — Virginia Heffernan