Villani Quotes & Sayings

It takes forty muscles to frown, and only twelve to jam a cupcake in your mouth and get over it. — Sarah Ockler

I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits on the basis of race in order to foster some current notion of equality ... In my mind, government-sponsored racial discrimination based on benign prejudice is just as noxious as discrimination inspired by malicious prejudice. — Clarence Thomas

I am Alberto Del Rio, but you already knew that. — Alberto Del Rio

As soon as I begin to feel that I am separate from this universe, then first comes fear, and then comes misery. — Swami Vivekananda

I know what a really bad day is ... and that's not losing a competition. — Sara McMann

I always like junkyards. All this metal piled up - they're filled with pathos, those places. Much more pathos than most of the music I've heard. You look at it, and there's more feeling, even though it's depressing, than there is in a lot of music I hear these days. A junkyard is what it is, whereas listening to a record by, say, Styx, is something else. — Tom Verlaine

We ought to look the world frankly in the face. — Bertrand Russell

Once again I had to put myself in a vulnerable position in order to become stronger. — Cedric Villani

while courage is not in itself one of the primary virtues, it is the quality that makes the exercise of the virtues possible. — Christopher Hitchens

How will it be when one of us alone Goes on that strange last journey of the soul? That certain search for an uncertain goal, That voyage on which no comradeship is known? ... — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it. — Jim Lehrer

Rob?" she whispered, unsure if he would be easy to wake.
"Hmmm?" he answered sleepily, kissing her on top of her head as he pulled her naked body closer. "Were you expecting someone else? — Samantha Chase

More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought. — Hyman G. Rickover

Man near entrance is shot in the head at close range from behind. The other two, multiple stab wounds, genitals severed, other injuries. Also head and pubic hair ignited, shot, muzzle in mouth. Three bullets recovered, 45 calibre."
Villani: "So you can't rule out an accident? — Peter Temple