Vivaitalia Quotes & Sayings

Louis XIV was very frank and sincere when he said: I am the State. The modern statist is modest. He says: I am the servant of the State; but, he implies, the State is God. You could revolt against a Bourbon king, and the French did it. This was, of course, a struggle of man against man. But you cannot revolt against the god State and against his humble handy man, the bureaucrat. — Ludwig Von Mises

In vogue and cosmopolitan they clutch their Pomeranians and walk among the millionaires or watch from swayback steamer chairs — Allan Wolf

What was stored in memory was distinct from what was deliberately remembered, Augustine said. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Because we're comics and we pass each other on campus, we know of each other, and a lot of the time there's a mutual respect there. — Marc Maron

I would say only be an actress if you genuinely feel the calling, because it's a tough profession. — Naomie Harris

I have the greatest affection for them but I know they're not going to make it for 500 years. They aren't. You know it, too. The Mexicans are a different cup of tea. They have a heritage. At the present time they steal, they're dishonest, but they do have some concept of family life. They don't live like a bunch of dogs, which the Negroes do live like. — Richard M. Nixon

Your choices determine your luck. — Kevin Abdulrahman

Everybody who knows us knows we always have a good time. — Maurice Gibb

it was like to want to hurt someone, to crave their death. — Anna Zaires

The killer simply picked any one of the men in gray suits and followed them from office building to cash machine, from lunchtime restaurant back to office building. Those gray suits were not happy, yet showed their unhappiness only during moments of weakness. Punching the buttons of a cash machine that refused to work. Yelling at a taxi that had come too close. Insulting the homeless people who begged for spare change. But the killer also saw the more subtle signs of unhappiness. A slight limp in uncomfortable shoes. Eyes closed, head thrown back while waiting for the traffic signal. The slight hesitation before opening a door. The men in gray suits wanted to escape, but their hatred and anger trapped them. — Sherman Alexie

I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can't just magically wind up at the part with the happy ending. — Larry Gelbart

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. — Theodor Adorno

I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness ... — Frederic Chopin

Dirk Gently is the name under which I now trade. There are certain events in the past, I'm afraid, from which I would wish to disassociate myself."
"Absolutely, I know how you feel. Most of the fourteenth century, for instance, was pretty grim," agreed Reg earnestly. — Douglas Adams