Treschi Quotes & Sayings

What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths. — Joe Meno

I look forward to the challenge, but most importantly, I look forward to the opportunity to do what hasn't been done that often, in a sense. Michael Jordan obviously has done it, but that's it. — Dwyane Wade

It is only those who do not know how to work that do not love it. To those who do, it is better than play. — John Henry Patterson

Heartbreak is more common than happiness. No one wants to say that, but it's true. We're taught to believe not only that everyone deserves a happy ending, but that if we try hard enough, we will get one. That's simply no the case. Happy endings, life long loves, are the products of both effort and luck. We can control them, to some extent and though our feelings always seem to have a life of their own, we can at least be open to love. But, luck, the other component, well there's nothing we can do about that one. Call it God's plan or predestination or divine intervention, but we're all at its mercy. And sometimes God isn't very merciful. Jane taught me that. — Beth Pattillo

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things. — Robert Louis Stevenson

We've got to be responsible, somebody's got to be responsible for it. — George Downing

Each action taken in this world has its echo in the heart. — Gelsey Kirkland

To sit down means to calm down without rush and fuss, stop and reflect, analyze all pros and cons, count all possible merits and faults — Sunday Adelaja

Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done. — Andy Hargreaves

Tonio Treschi was that half man, that less than man that arouses the contempt of every whole man who looks upon it. Tonio Treschi was that thing which women cannot leave alone and men find infinitely disturbing, frightening, pathetic, the butt of jokes and endless bullying, the necessary evil of the church choirs and the opera stage which is, outside that artifice and grace and soaring music, very simply monstrous. — Anne Rice

No one has the power to deal with our inadequacies and insecurities but ourselves. No — Debra Fileta

The Cardinal was bent over his writing desk, the room unchanged save for the light of what appeared a small antique oil lamp. And there were illuminated letters in the book before him, tiny figures fitted into the capitals, the whole gleaming as he let his hand, quivering, turn the page.
"Ah, think of it," he said, smiling as he saw Tonio, "written language the possession of those who took such pains to preserve it. I am forever entranced with the forms in which knowledge is given us, not by nature, but by our fellow man. — Anne Rice

From the evening I was saved, I began to live a new life, for the life of the eternal God had entered into me. — Watchman Nee

I think you've been lying to yourself so long that you don't know what the truth is anymore. — Kelly Moran

He was so rapt in his thoughts that he did not hear anything much that Guido was saying, that lovely bubbling speech of Guido's when he was at last content.
Tonio allowed it to pass over him, and now and then he would give a little gracious nod. — Anne Rice