Torrisi Italian Quotes & Sayings

God can of course look in someone's mind to discover what he is thinking, or look into the future to discover what she will do, but here and elsewhere the Old Testament implies that God does not always do that. God waits to see what will happen. Perhaps it implies a kind of respect for human beings, a desire to let them make their decisions and not mess with their minds, and a desire for a realtime relationship. If God always worked out ahead of time whatwe would do, and knew it before we did, it would introduce an element of phoniness into the relationship. But that's just my guess; the Bible makes clear only the fact of God's not knowing things ahead of time, not the rationale. — John E. Goldingay

Inertia is often mistaken for patience. — Marty Rubin

It is impossible to accommodate everyone and twice as impossible to please all the dwarfs. — Terry Pratchett

There was his father, looking totally different but exactly the same.
"Hey, son," his dad said, his voice bending in that weird way that America had started to shape it. — Patrick Ness

What this country needs is a really good five cent cigar. — Thomas R. Marshall

She thought her ears would light with fire, her cheeks burn to ash, but the moment passed, as even the worst moments do. — Charlie N. Holmberg

My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather. — Claire Denis

Each person is born with a unique individuality, and each person has a destiny of his or her own. Imitation is crime, it is criminal. If you try to become a Buddha, you may look like Buddha, you may walk like him, you may talk like him, but you will miss. You will miss all that life was ready to deliver to you. Buddha happens only once. — Rajneesh

Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president. — Jill Lepore

Boozing does not necessarily have to go hand in hand with being a writer ... I therefore solemnly declare to all young men trying to become writers that they do not actually have to become drunkards first. — Nelson W. Aldrich

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all. — Sophocles

Haiti is the kind of place that grabs your heart, and never lets go ... When you arrive in Port-au-Prince, the first thing that strikes you is how vibrant the colors are. Buses, buildings, fences, clothing, everything is brightly painted in primary hues. On closer inspection, you see the reality behind this brightly colored landscape: a dark, grinding poverty, the worst in the Western hemisphere. — Andrea Mitchell