Staffelli Valerio Quotes & Sayings

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. — Roy L. Smith

We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism.' — Pat Buchanan

The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail. — Alice Munro

If we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history. — David Gelernter

Just as a concept becomes a unit when integrated with others into a wider concept, so a genus becomes a single unit, a species, when integrated with others into a wider genus. For instance, "table" is a species of the genus "furniture," which is a species of the genus "household goods," which is a species of the genus "man-made objects." "Man" is a species of the genus "animal," which is a species of the genus "organism," which is a species of the genus "entity. — Ayn Rand

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions. — Henry James Sumner Maine

We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world. — Mitt Romney

For centuries, musicians have sought to find me at the end of a needle or the bottom of a drink. It is an illusion. And it often ends badly. Take — Mitch Albom

Judo helps us to understand that worry is a waste of energy. — Kano Jigoro

The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour. — Friedrich Nietzsche