Zerbino Montagna Quotes & Sayings

America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be disappointed in the object of your love, wanting it to be better than it is. In fact, that is a measure of love. Honest critique is a pillar of patriotism. — Charles M. Blow

God does not call us to be successful, but to be obedient. — Billy Graham

Love is a bridge over the sea of change. Do not build a house on it. — Sathya Sai Baba

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing. — Neil Jordan

Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another. — Gene Stratton-Porter

Your mother stands against everything my parents believe in," I say. "But I'm not my parents."
"Aria," Hunter whispers into my ear.
"Yes?"
"Just kiss me."
We press our lips together gentle, and it's like I am alive, on fire, like I can do anything in the world. I know this because he's a mystic, but there's something more familiar, something safe and sexy and irresistible about the way his lips feel, his tongue brushing lightly against mine. Our passion is like what's described in my love letters: it's like coming home, finally, when I never even knew I'd been away. — Theo Lawrence

You may have read the poetry, but you haven't lived it. And that's what makes the difference. — Suzanne Harper

I am not sure of anything, I know nothing ... can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death? — Jorge Luis Borges

At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution. — Martin Amis

Here I want to stress that perception of losing one's mind is based on culturally derived and socially ingrained stereotypes as to the significance of symptoms such as hearing voices, losing temporal and spatial orientation, and sensing that one is being followed, and that many of the most spectacular and convincing of these symptoms in some instances psychiatrically signify merely a temporary emotional upset in a stressful situation, however terrifying to the person at the time. Similarly, the anxiety consequent upon this perception of oneself, and the strategies devised to reduce this anxiety, are not a product of abnormal psychology, but would be exhibited by any person socialized into our culture who came to conceive of himself as someone losing his mind. — Erving Goffman

She caught her breath on a sob. He was going to London to bed another woman. — Elizabeth Hoyt

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal. — Carl Bernstein