Tartarini Simona Quotes & Sayings

You see, all that I ever held dear has been taken from me," she said in a matter-of-fact tone. "And when you've lost everything-" Her facade began to crumble, and her voice broke, but she made herself carry on. "When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose. — Ken Follett

Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the Gnostic constructs his system. The building of systems is a gnostic form of reasoning, not a philosophical one. — Eric Voegelin

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past. — Robert Penn Warren

The only spoof I think is the title, which was just we thought of very early on and it kind of stuck. — Simon Pegg

the commencement speaker. The billionaire founder — Karen Blumenthal

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished. — Walker Percy

I do not use my intellect to write my stories and books; I have a gut reaction to the things that my subconscious gives me. — Ray Bradbury

he would not neglect what he considered his duty for the sake of being liked. — Naomi Novik

If anyone had realized that within 10 years this tiny system that was picked up almost by accident was going to be controlling 50 million computers, considerably more thought might have gone into it. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum

I'm a warrior at heart; I'm an ex-Navy Seal. I'm too old to wage war anymore, and so now I wage it mentally. And so I find politics very stimulating; it's war without guns. — Jesse Ventura

I hated most music in the 1970s, especially disco, but Bowie was edgier. — Anton Du Beke

A novel is born several times and dies several times, before it takes its final life form. — Manjiri Prabhu

Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit down for it, but even sitting down, you had to stand out. — Terry Pratchett