Travaglio Grasso Quotes & Sayings

Especially from the legal end of things, the easiest thing for a big corporation or lawyer to say is no. — Jeff Tremaine

It is only your habitual late riser who takes in the full flavor of Nature at those rare intervals when he gets up to go afishing. He brings virginal emotions and unsatiated eyes to the sparkling freshness of earth and stream and sky. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation. — Joe Lieberman

I want to be Eric Cantor's term limit. — Dave Brat

Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed it was the Pendulum's business. A moment later the couple went off
he, trained on some textbook that had blunted his capacity for wonder, she, inert and insensitive to the thrill of the infinite, both oblivious of the awesomeness of their encounter
their first and last encounter
with the One, the Ein-Sof, the Ineffable. How could you fail to kneel down before this altar of certitude? — Umberto Eco

I would love to take a cooking class from Gandhi. Maybe I could teach him how to cook, and he could teach me his message. I wouldn't mind learning how to make couscous from scratch from a North African woman, either. — Marcus Samuelsson

The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous. (VII) — Aristotle.

What you had to have is usually tabulated as follows: luck; the ability to adapt, immediately and radically; a talent for inconspicuousness; solidarity with another individual or with a group; the preservation of decency ("the people who had no tenets to live by - of whatever nature - generally succumbed" no matter how ruthlessly they struggled); the constantly nurtured conviction of innocence (an essential repeatedly emphasised by Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago); immunity to despair; and, again, luck. — Martin Amis

Learn the rules like a professional, so you can break them like an artist. — Pablo Picasso

I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't. — Robert Redford

If you never get to your goal of setting goals, you will never get to anything. — Thomas F. Shubnell

Under no circumstance is any proverbial player ever more significant than the collective. — Carlos Wallace

Give me back the $800 billion for the Iraq war and children's television PBS is on the house. — Jon Stewart

This seems to have taken me a long way from detective stories, but explains, perhaps, why I have got more interest in my victims than my criminals. The more passionately alive the victim, the more glorious indignation I have on his behalf, and am full of a delighted triumph when I have delivered a near-victim out of the valley of the shadow of death. Returning — Agatha Christie