Viaggiatore Quotes & Sayings

I had never heard of the little Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid. And yet, that's where it all began. With an ordinary incident, one that happens frequently, but so frequently that it finally started something unstoppable. — John Freeman

He was a devoted follower of the teachings of Epicurus - "that pleasure is the beginning and end of living happily" - although I hasten to add that he was an Epicurean not in the commonly misunderstood sense, as a seeker after luxury, but in the true meaning, as a pursuer of what the Greeks call ataraxia, or freedom from disturbance. He consequently avoided arguments and unpleasantness of any kind (needless to say, he was unmarried) and desired only to contemplate philosophy by day and dine by night with his cultured friends. He — Robert Harris

The genetic theory of homosexuality has been generally discarded today ... Despite the interest in possible hormone mechanisms in the origin of homosexuality, no serious scientist today suggests that a simple cause-effect relationship applies. — William H. Masters

Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is a search for a final and irrefutable demonstration that our absolute truth is indeed the one and only truth. The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. — Eric Hoffer

He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world. — Socrates

The problem is that when you change Romeo and Juliet's story it ends up like that ridiculous Taylor Swift song. And that's not what people love about Romeo and Juliet. — Jolene Perry

The Main Street is wide, ridiculously wide, as though when it was built, the town was expecting something amazing to arrive, a thousand people to stake their claim to a patch of soggy green land, a huge boat, Titanic-size, on the back of a truck. — Karen Foxlee

Un viaggiatore americano ha scritto: "Italy is the land of human nature". — Beppe Severgnini

Psychology is a subject of life, death, and in-betweens. — Santosh Kalwar

We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege. — Pierre Trudeau

That's what it means to be in love, Marin. It means doing everything in your power to ensure that the one you love lives to see another day, because the world would be that much darker without them. — Aida Jacobs

In addition to comedy, I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good. — Wendy Liebman

They really don't know where the future lies. If developers decide to build a high-rise where the McCormick building is, they'd have nowhere to go. — Jose Gonzalez

One thing I realized from my quick read through Scripture was that Christians were to live in community with other believers. — Jimmy Turner