St Clelia Barbieri Quotes & Sayings

Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power. — Ellen Hopkins

Number theorists are like lotus-eaters
having once tasted of this food they can never give it up. — Leopold Kronecker

It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do. — Malcolm Gladwell

I'm from a small town so, like, everyone's married with children or about to have children. So it's a little hard when you go home and people are like - and that's why people think I'm gay - because they're like 'Why aren't you married?' And I'm like, 'it doesn't happen for everyone right off the bat.' — Kelly Clarkson

When Cecily said she wanted something, it did not express an idle desire but an iron determination. — Cassandra Clare

Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome. — Danny Meyer

A doll is among the most pressing needs as well as the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for it, adorn it, dress and undress it, give it lessons, scold it a little, put it to bed and sing it to sleep, pretend that the object is a living person - all the future of the woman resides in this. Dreaming and murmuring, tending, cossetting, sewing small garments, the child grows into girlhood, from girlhood into womanhood, from womanhood into wifehood, and the first baby is the successor of the last doll. A little girl without a doll is nearly as deprived and quite as unnatural as a woman without a child. — Victor Hugo

Can the same nature be a lover of wisdom and a lover of falsehood? Never. The true lover of learning then must from his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth? Assuredly. But then again, as we know by experience, he whose desires are strong in one direction will have them weaker in others; they will be like a stream which has been drawn off into another channel. True. He whose desires are drawn towards knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasure - I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. That is most certain. Such — Plato

In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again. — James Buchan

When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim. — Byron Katie