Treccani Vocabolario Quotes & Sayings

Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities to believe that we have a Creator whom we never saw, of whom we have no direct proof, who is kind and good and tender beyond all that we know of kindness and goodness and tenderness on earth, it is because the endowment of capacities to conceive a Being must be for our benefit and use; it would not be for our benefit and use if it were a lie. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

What do you want from me? I keep telling you I don't care about this secret. I'm telling you I want you. I don't know what else to say to convince you. — Jamie McGuire

My visit to England is a memorable event in my life, from the fact of my having there received strong, religious impressions. The contemptuous manner in which the communion had been administered to colored people in my native place; the church membership of Dr. Flint and others like him; and the buying and selling of slaves, by professed ministers of the gospel, had given me a prejudice against the Episcopal church. The whole service seemed to me a mockery and a sham. But my home in Steventon was in the home of a clergyman, who was a true disciple of Jesus. The beauty of his daily life inspired me with faith in the genuineness of Christian professions. Grace entered my heart, and I knelt at the communion table, I trust, in true humility of soul. — Harriet Jacobs

When you write you have a certain vision of how it could be and it's great to be able to see it all the way to the goal line. — Etan Cohen

Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work. — J.K. Rowling

I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down! — Rod Stewart

The central purpose of all scripture is to fill our souls with faith in God the Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ. — D. Todd Christofferson

Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation. — Florence Nightingale

I didn't tell him. He found out. Basically, he caught me coming in
after the last time you and I saw each other. But he won't give us away,
Lucas. He's even willing to help us see each other, as long as we help
him with Charity."
"What, like, a fund-raiser or something?"
I'd forgotten he didn't know her name. "The vampire girl in Amherst."
"Wait - Charity? That's her name? You were able to figure out who
she is." He smiled so proudly that all the tension of the moment instantly
melted. "I fell in love with a genius. — Claudia Gray

But I'm looking at life, and I'm putting nothing off. — Lynn Redgrave

Banks have come to realize in the recent crisis that they are paying the price for having designed compensation packages which provide incentives that are not, in the long run, in the interests of the banks themselves, and I would like to think that would change. — Mervyn King

Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that. — Michael Franti

Women developed it as an art. They've had to, in order to survive. The problem is that it limits you. You are in a controlling situation in duality. — Frederick Lenz