Tessina History Quotes & Sayings

We are, all of us, poor wretches, and those who prefer not to understand this are even worse off than the rest of us.
— Isabelle Eberhardt

It's easy to laugh at etiquette, but in a hundred years, our children's grandchildren will almost certainly be laughing at us. — Sara Sheridan

He hath disgrac'd me and hind'red me half a million; laugh'd at my losses, mock'd at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies. And what's his reason? I am a Jew. — William Shakespeare

Adele shattered the image of how the stereotypical singer is supposed to look. She has that whole 'Screw you, I'm awesome for what I do' attitude, which I really look up to and want to be a part of. — Mary Lambert

She squinted up at him. "But I haven't always made good decisions."
Pastor Harris smiled. "All that shows is that you're human. — Nicholas Sparks

I swear I begin to see the meaning of these things. It is not the earth, it is not America, who is so great, it is I who am great or to be great ... — Walt Whitman

This is what analysts have calculated. It's a number that's out there and we're not arguing with it. — David Edward Kirk

He stood gazing at her; traces of the old fresco were apparent in her face and limbs, and these he tried incessantly, afterwards, to recapture, both when he was with Odette, and when he was only thinking of her in her absence; and, albeit his admiration for the Florentine masterpiece was probably based upon his discovery that it had been reproduced in her, the similarity enhanced her beauty also, and rendered her more precious in his sight. — Marcel Proust

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak. — Morley Safer

Blumenthal goes straight to the heart in these poems. Gorgeously wrought, surprising, true, wise, elegiac, they leave me with a sense of having listened to Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus. Who could ask for more? — Lynn Freed

One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business. — Rupert Murdoch

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories. — Errol Morris