Valerio Quotes & Sayings

Remember, my boy, I never fight for the pleasure of wielding weapons. War, for me, is simply politics by other means. — Valerio Massimo Manfredi

...curiosity had the same impact on him as caffeine... (Commissario Soneri) — Valerio Varesi

All that remained for him was the Po, his landscape, the mist and that little corner of his past which opened up inside the doors of Il Sordo (a local bar). — Valerio Varesi

Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear. — Seneca The Elder

A poet, Hephaestion, sings not to narrate human events as they occur, but to make sure that we have the opportunity of living the emotions and the passions of our heroes even at a distance of centuries. — Valerio Massimo Manfredi

I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of. — Jack White

Myth is stories about the way things never were, but always are. — Marcus J. Borg

There are no simple answers to complex problems. — Valerio Massimo Manfredi

I changed my mind," he said. "I'll take you up on helping me get a job."
I almost swerved into oncoming traffic. — Richelle Mead

Lesson learned - in doing business, do not COMPETE but be COMPETITIVE. — Diana Valerio

philip closed his eyes and stood upright and immobile in the middle of the silet room. In that moment the roar of battle, the creaking wood of the siege engines, the furious galloping of the horses all faded away; he simply stood stock still and listened to his son's breathing. — Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Do you know, Valerio, that even the least among all humans is so great that life is far too short to love him? — Georg Buchner

History sometimes reproduces, at a distance of many years, the same combinations of circumstances that generate great achievements. But nothing ever repeats itself in exactly the same way. — Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Politics is the science of urgencies. — Theodore Parker

They passed the Gates of Thermopylae the following day and Alexander stopped to visit the tombs of the Spartan soldiers who had fallen one hundred and forty years previously during their battle with the Persian invaders. He read the simple inscription in Laconian dialect that commemorated their ultimate sacrifice and he stood in silence listening to the wind blowing in from the sea.
How ephemeral is the destiny of man!' he exclaimed. 'All that is left of the thunder of a momentous clash which shook the whole world and an act of heroism worthy of Homer's verses are these few lines. All is quiet now. — Valerio Massimo Manfredi