Vespri Di Quotes & Sayings

Everything in New York seems to merit preserving. If it's not historical, it's personal. If it's not personal, it's cultural. But you can't. You can't save everything. You just have to pack it up in your brain and take it with you when you go. — Sloane Crosley

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary. — Edward Hopper

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Then when I am sad and understand nothing anymore, I say to myself that it's better to die while you still want to live, than to die and want to die. — Erich Maria Remarque

Never give an order that can't be obeyed. — Douglas MacArthur

What fascinates me - and what serves as a central theme of this book - is why we make the choices we do. What separates us from the world we have and the kind of ethical universe envisioned by someone like Havel? What prompts one person to act boldly in a moment of crisis and a second to seek shelter in the crowd? Why do some people become stronger in the face of adversity while others quickly lose heart? What separates the bully from the protector? Is it education, spiritual belief, our parents, our friends, the circumstances of our birth, traumatic events, or more likely some combination that spells the difference? More succinctly, do our hopes for the future hinge on a desirable unfolding of external events or some mysterious process within? — Madeleine K. Albright

I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically. — Mark Takano

I hate it as one hates sin or pestilence or
the color work in a ten-cent magazine. — O. Henry