Viesa Virgin Quotes & Sayings

The terms that Sforza Cesarini offered Rossini, 400 Roman Scudi, were not ungenerous, though it must have been galling for Rossini to see the Figaro, Luigi Zamboni, getting almost twice as much, and the Almaviva, Manuel Garcia, being offered three times the amount. Of the first-night cast, only the 'altro buffo', Bartolomeo Botticelli, who played Bartolo, and the 'seconda donna', Elisabetta Lowselet, who played Berta, were paid less than the composer. — Richard Osborne

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion. — Ellen DeGeneres

Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance. — Richard Baxter

There's only one thing on my mind. There's only one goal. One aim. One focus. — Triple H

I'm glad I'm not good compared to God, because if I was, He wouldn't be much of a god. — R.M. ArceJaeger

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour — Gary Becker

The doves, as we know, must be killed according to the law before Mary's purification can be acknowledged and ratified. Any ironic or irreverent disciple of Voltaire will find it difficult to resist making the obvious remark that, things being what they are, purity can be maintained only so long as there are innocent creatures to sacrifice in this world, whether turtledoves, lambs, or others. — Jose Saramago

Alcohol's been keeping depression alive and well for over ten thousand years. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Other people have all kinds of information about you that is invisible to you. How do you get feedback? — Sheila Heen

Life without heroic deed is no life at all. — David Gemmell

Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you down. — Albert Einstein

Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton