Silvana Mangano Quotes & Sayings

Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself — Jeremy Griffith

If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it. — Zora Neale Hurston

I happen to like movies and plays about dislikeable people as long as I get to know why they are what they are. — Stephen Sondheim

Twenty pounds of tomatoes will cook down into a pot of tomato sauce that fits into five one-quart freezer boxes, good for one family meal each. (Be warned, the fragrance of your kitchen will cause innocent bystanders to want to marry you.) — Barbara Kingsolver

Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results. — Laozi

There are no rules for living, because you are unique. Find your truth in each moment and dare to live it. That is the way to freedom. — Paul Lowe

Posterity, n.
I try not to think about us growing old together, mostly because I try not to think about growing old at all. Both things - the years passing, the years together - are too enormous to contemplate. But one morning, I gave in. You were asleep, and I imagined you older and older. Your hair graying, your skin folded and creased, your breath catching. And I found myself thinking: If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. Your memories will be my most lasting impression. — David Levithan

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Know your gifts and share them. — Les Brown

A simple thought can transform you forever. So cultivate beautiful thoughts, ugliness never. — Debasish Mridha

It's a gift to joyfully recognize and accept our own smallness and ordinariness. Then you are free with nothing to live up to, nothing to prove, and nothing to protect. Such freedom is my best description of Christian maturity, because once you know that your "I" is great and one with God, you can ironically be quite content with a small and ordinary "I." No grandstanding is necessary. Any question of your own importance or dignity has already been resolved once and for all and forever. — Richard Rohr

When we take voice lessons from the Master, we learn to speak with tenderness. — David Jeremiah

Only man has law. Law must be built, do you understand me? You must build the law. — Raphael Lemkin