Silvio Dante Quotes & Sayings

I knew Rome was burning, but I had just enough water to scrub the floors, so I did what I could. — Barbara Kingsolver

I'm much pickier about what I put in my body. I always read labels now, whereas before I didn't even think to. — Nicky Hilton

You believe today's paradigm are not going to change ... Ask the caveman then if his paradigms changed or not. think for yourself you loose. think for coming generations you win. — Sameh Elsayed

We are living in an artificial world - a world of fantasies and illusions. We've learned beautiful phrases but haven't learned yet how to carry out that little bit that we know. Our brains are stuffed with quotations, while at the same time nine out of ten of these dogmas are incomprehensible, murky, or lies. Which are worthwhile and which are not? Yes, I must stop being false before others and myself. How simple it all seems! But how do I do this? Let just a little time pass, and then we may understand - only the simplest, honorable acts determine the value of a man. Only I myself can and must help myself to become an adult. — Boris Gorbachevsky

No morally imperfect human being(s), born into "the double darkness of sin and ignorance" could ever qualify for the position of Master Utilitarian Manipulator that Consequentialism needs to be put into practice. — John C. Wright

It is more than petty treason to the Republic, to call a free citizen a servant. The whole class of young women, whose bread depends upon their labour, are taught to believe that the most abject poverty is preferable to domestic service. Hundreds of half-naked girls work in the paper-mills, or in any other manufactory, for less than half the wages they would receive in service; but they think their equality is compromised by the latter, and nothing but the wish to obtain some particular article of finery will ever induce them to submit to it. — Frances Trollope

Is it Nice in your snowstorm- freezing your brain? Do you think that your face looks the same? — David Bowie

[On Richard M. Nixon:] The Republican nominee would be far worse than another Eisenhower - he is Tricky Dicky of the first magnitude. His entire record is one of opportunism. I cannot feel that there is the remotest sincerity in him, and that clearly he would be the tool of the highest bidder, which is always 'big business. — Marguerite Rawalt

His changes are true,
And oh for a reason.
His work is eternal,
And arrives in due season. — Kari L. Greenaway

I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back. — Mary Stewart

One day you're young with all your fine plans for the future. The next you're in the future and it doesn't look at all the way you thought it would. — Amanda Quick

And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path. — John Dramani Mahama

Faith is as powerful a force as science
but far more dangerous — Diana Gabaldon