Splendida Giornata Quotes & Sayings

Faith is not the result of fuzy thinking. It is the cause of it. — Dan Barker

If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves. — Timothy Keller

If any of you survive, make sure I have an open casket," Jesper said as he hefted two slender coils of rope over his shoulder and signalled for Wylan to follow him across the roof. "The world deserves a few more moments with this face. — Leigh Bardugo

Everybody enjoys arguing about the current state of music because it feels as if you are talking about something incredibly important, yet it requires little understanding of the subject matter at hand. It's like world politics meets the pink questions in Trivial Pursuit. Points are made but nothing gets accomplished. — John Mayer

'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are. — Caitlin Stasey

I shuddered at the mention of Mrs. Steiger.
"What's that about?" Ranger asked.
"Mrs. Steiger is the Antichrist."
"Damn," Ranger said. "I left my Antichrist gun at home."
"Looks like you brought everything else."
"Never know when you'll need some tear gas."
"If we have to gas Mrs. Steiger, it"ll ruin my chances of being Miss Burg in the Mayflower parade. — Janet Evanovich

Taking my faltering as a sign of imminent emotional breakdown. — Andrea Cremer

From where I stood, the Statue of Liberty was a flourescent green fleck against the sky, and beyond her sat Ellis Island, the focus of so many myths; but it had been built too late for those early Africans - who weren't immigrants in any case - and it had been closed too soon to mean anything to the later Africans like Kenneth, or the cabdriver, or me. — Teju Cole

If to a poet a physicist may speak
Freely, as though we shared a common tongue,
For "peace in our time" I should hardly seek
By means that once proved wrong.
It seems the Muscovite
Has quite a healthy, growing appetite.
We can't be safe; at least we can be right.
Some bombs may help - perhaps a bomb-proof cellar,
But surely not the Chamberlain umbrella.
The atom is now big; the world is small.
Unfortunately, we have conquered space.
If war does come, it comes to all,
To every distant place.
Will people have the dash
That Britons had when their world seemed to crash
Before a small man with a small mustache?
You rhyme the atoms to amuse and charm us -
Your counsel should inspire, and not disarm us.

(Teller's reply to an anonymous British man's poem/message (that Americans are too belligerent), both in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists). — Edward Teller

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter. — Mark Twain

Mindfulness is a form of mental activity that trains the mind to become aware of awareness itself and to pay attention to one's own intention. — Daniel J. Siegel

To work for months and months and months, you kind of spill blood and give your heart and soul to something, and then you just sort of let it out into the universe and hope that people like it. How you see it in your head is never how you see it on the screen, so it's almost like an out of body experience. — Jaime Ray Newman

I was caught between going yippy-skippy i get to play with them both, and running like hell. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves. — Bobby Fischer

How fragile were the moments of chance on which the whole course of one's life hinged. — Mary Balogh