Spregio Significato Quotes & Sayings

Had I not become a footballer, I think I would have been a virgin. — Peter Crouch

Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us ... But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter? — Neil Postman

Being rich had felt to Edgar like treading alone for all of time in a beautiful, bottomless pool. So much, so blue, and nothing to push off from. No grit or sand, no sturdy earth, just his own constant movement to keep above the surface. It was easy to hate riches when they surrounded him, but Edgar did not know how to be any other kind of person. He did not know that in every life the work of want and survival was just as floorless, just as unstopping. — Ramona Ausubel

The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth. — Vernon Howard

By seeing the problem of poverty merely in terms of assistance, we overlook that our enormous economic advantage is deeply tainted by how it accumulated over the course of one historical process that has devastated the societies and cultures of four continents. — Thomas Pogge

There's nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book. — Betty MacDonald

The people who had turned their heads turned them again as the service proceeded; and at last observing her they whispered to each other. She knew what their whispers were about, grew sick at heart, and felt that she could come to church no more. — Thomas Hardy

I've got a very short attention span, and this has been part of the reason I'm so kind of dumbfounded at the fact that I've still stayed with music. Nothing has ever stuck for me, and music's the only thing that's managed to stick out for a long period of time. — Gin Wigmore

I grew up in Maine working at a video store and found myself being pulled more and more to on-camera stuff. — Timothy Simons

Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to be a writer can afford to indulge in it. — Katherine Mansfield