Stanze Per La Quotes & Sayings

I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting. — Anna Kournikova

To be unrecognizable in movies is the biggest compliment that anybody can give you. — Michael Angarano

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia. — Alexis Carrel

There is a growing sense among Americans outside the Beltway that while President Obama may be a good talker, he is a lousy manager. — Kathleen Troia McFarland

In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

After the Berlin Wall came down and Communism was on the run, I looked around and wondered what the next threat to the United States would be. — Brad Thor

[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages. — Karin Slaughter

My conscious mind must have its roots and origins in the most unfathomable depths of being, yet it feels as if it lived all by itself in this tight little skull. — Alan W. Watts

During the Crusades, when Christians were in the mood to slaughter infidels, they were very cognizant of God's sanctioning faith-based mass murder in parts of the Bible. During the Cold War, when the United States was part of an international multifaith alliance that included Muslim and Buddhist nations, this motif was played down; whole generations of American Christians were weaned on a misleadingly sunny selection of Bible stories. — Robert Wright

My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree. — John Morgridge

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one ... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. — Mark Twain

The Eleven king looked sternly upon Thorin, when he was brought before him, and asked him many questions. But Thorin would only say that he was starving.
"Why did you and your folk three times try to attack my people at their merrymaking?" asked the king.
"We did not attack them," answered Thorin, "we came to beg because we were starving."
"Where are your friends now, and what are they doing?"
"I don't know, but I expect that they're all starving in the forest."
"What were you doing in the forest?"
"Looking for food and drink, because we were starving."
"And what brought you into the forest at all?" asked the king angrily.
At that Thorin shut his mouth and would not say another word. — J.R.R. Tolkien