Violinos Italianos Quotes & Sayings

Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there. — George Herbert

We are, in fact, a nation of evangelists; every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow-citizens, usually by force; the messianic delusion is our national disease. — H.L. Mencken

No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special. — Kodo Sawaki

The sugar planter counted on an average of ten to fifteen years' work from a slave before he was driven to death, to be replaced by another fresh off the boat. Along with malnutrition, bugs and diseases could also eventually do in someone working up to eighteen hours a day. The brutality of the American Cotton Kingdom a century later could not compare to that of Saint-Domingue in the 1700s. There would be no shortage of cruel overseers in the United States, but North American slavery was not based on a business model of systematically working slaves to death in order to replace them with newly bought captives. The French sugar plantations were a charnel house. — Tom Reiss

Money they got at their wedding. She watched The — Jodi Picoult

He took her face into his hands and his kiss blotted out the sky — Libba Bray

For me it's not a question of whether we should intrude in family life, but how and when. — Margaret Hodge

Give everything away. Create an emptiness to fill again and again with love. — Debasish Mridha

What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two. — Bruce Babbitt

It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier. — Ian McKellen

The captain of this sailing vessel has requested a private audience with you in his quarters. It seems you've a treasure map hidden on your person, and I mean to explore every inch of you until it is discovered. — Olivia Parker

A wrong path may take you to the right wisdom! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The task of getting the Gospel in an adequate way to every ethnic person is tremedous. There is but one solution. I'm sure that it isn't man, money, surveys, not talk. They all have their place, but if the basis of all of it isn't fervent, believing prayer, they are in vain. And prayer should not only be the basis but it should permeate and vitalize the whole work. — William Cameron Townsend

I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you? — Mary Pipher

He returned with the tissue-restorer. I loosed it down the hatch, and after undergoing the passing discomfort, unavoidable when you drink Jeeves's patent morning revivers, of having the top of the skull fly up to the ceiling and the eyes shoot out of their sockets and rebound from the opposite wall like racquet balls, felt better. It — P.G. Wodehouse