Alighiera Olena Quotes

#1. I don't know what to do, and if I did know what to do I wouldn't tell you, because if I had to tell you today then I'd have to tell you tomorrow, and when I'm gone you'd have to get somebody else to tell you.

Myles Horton

#2. You're mad," he said in a low voice, "if you think I would leave you now. I'll see you safe and well no matter what it takes.

Lisa Kleypas

#3. The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.

Laozi

#4. When you find a man who knows his job and is willing to take responsibility, keep out of his way and don't bother him with unnecessary supervision. What you may think is cooperation is nothing but interference.

Thomas Dreier

#5. So I say to you read! Read! Something will stick in the mind, be diligent and good will come of it.

Sarah Vowell

#6. how much of the present slide towards Fascist ways of thought is traceable to the 'anti-Fascism' of the past ten years and the unscrupulousness it has entailed?

George Orwell

#7. I didn't know what gay was until I lived in New York for 10 years. You know, I was just underexposed in that regard.

Isaiah Washington

#8. Most of my reading is based on what I'm working on. I did a series of paintings based on the seven deadly sins, so I read Dante and then Milton's 'Paradise Lost.' That was a bit hard going.

Jamie Wyeth

#9. New York was an idea, I thought, an idea held simultaneously by thirteen million people.

Nancy Pickard

#10. When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why?

Jodi Picoult

#11. I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.

William Devane

#12. I was really inspired by this feeling of mania, a caricature of myself that I look down upon and see negatively.

Caroline Polachek

#13. I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.

Zac Posen

#14. You had to be there to see what it looked like. They live in a dream, and we live in a nightmare.

Philip Roth