Sottotenente Di Quotes & Sayings

If I have viewed them from a certain angle, it is because, seen from there, that is how they looked
which may be due to prismatic distortion, but which is therefore what they also are, though unaware of being it. — Jean Genet

Suffering is the frame, the context, where we learn to love. — Paul E. Miller

one of the great failures of human civilization has been its refusal to pay proper attention, or a proper wage, to those who perform the hard but essential primary task of growing our food. — Christopher Hitchens

I shake my head. I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the rake handle like a tear. Dad nods and walks to the Jeep, keys jangling in his fingers. A mockingbird lands on a low oak branch and scolds me. I rake the leaves out of my throat.
Me: Can you buy some seeds? Flower seeds? — Laurie Halse Anderson

You shouldn't call then anything. They're poor unfortunate people who cannot help the way they look, — Jacqueline Wilson

We want someone else to act. But miracles aren't what other people do. They're what each of us does. They're what happens when ordinary people take extraordinary action. To be a miracle doesn't mean you have to tackle problems across the globe. It means making a difference in your own living room, cubicle, neighborhood, community. — Regina Brett

Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife — Thomas Malthus

I wasn't aware of it at the time, but I was a big favorite with the Mafia. — Brenda Lee

Mental toughness is an element in the make up of perseverance. — Manuela George-Izunwa

I still remember "the mighty Cros" visiting the ranch in his van. That van was a rolling laboratory that made Jack Casady's briefcase look like chicken feed. Forget I said that! Was my mic on? — Neil Young

The river, tonally, does not recede, presenting the same lifeless grey near and far, a depthless plane upon which Schmitt's dragging oars inscribe parallel lines and Eakins' oars, rising and falling, leave methodically spaced patches of disturbed water. The canvas is haunting - en evocation of the democracy's idyllic, isolating spaciousness, present even in the midst of a great Eastern city. — John Updike

I always hated obvious dreams like that. I still do. — Junot Diaz

That's why we gotta do good things now. Make good decisions. Try to move the rudder long before the boat ever gets near the iceberg, right? — Chuck Wendig