Trieste Italian Quotes & Sayings

The key to self-confidence is knowing that you would choose you ... and why. In this way the chosen becomes the chooser, and love versus fear becomes the energy of choice. — Bill Crawford

Often, then, the stories came pouring out, and often they were set before us slowly and quietly like tea. These slow stories were told with understatement that made my eyes and voice fill as I translated; for when people seem to have no emotion remaining for such stories, your own heart must supply it. — Daoud Hari

Unruly geeks change the world — Alexandra Robbins

What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven. — Victor Hugo

Even as he printed the words, he imagined people reading them, people moved by his loneliness and disappointment, even by his wretched spelling, the childish mesh of his composition. Let them see the struggle and humiliation, the effort he had to exert to write a simple sentence. The pages were crowded, smudged, urgent, a true picture of his state of mind, of his rage and frustration, knowing a thing but not being able to record it properly. — Don DeLillo

In the country It seems as if every tree Said to me 'Holy! Holy!' Who can ever express The ecstasy of the woods! Almighty One, In the woods I am blessed. Happy every one in the woods. Every tree speaks through Thee. O God! What glory in the woodland. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old? — Marilyn Manson

There's a little trick called the Rule of Three: if you use any three of the five senses, it will make the scene immediately three-dimensional. — Diana Gabaldon

Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious. — Chen-Ning Yang

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

Umberto Poli was born in Trieste in 1883, when the city was at its zenith as the major port of the Habsburgs. The irredentist sympathies of Umberto's Italian-speaking parents can be detected in their giving him the first name of the Italian emperor. — Susan Stewart

I'm not interested in how things were, or how we ended up where we are now. What interests me is what we are now and what we will be. — Ahmed Toufiq