Alvise Contarini Quotes

#1. it could take 30 years to build your reputation and yet it can be lost in 30 seconds.

Robin S. Sharma

#2. My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science.

Norman Lamm

#3. But don't forget my ideas are only what's been written down in history by the great people of the world who've gone before. All I've done is condense the wisdom of the world into an attitude for athletics. Athletics aren't just running, it's a way of life

Percy Cerutty

#4. The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#5. (in regards to watches) They were such insidious little machines- always there to pressure you, to make you fixate on what was next instead of taking pleasure in what was now. To remind you that your time was slowly, inevitable running out.

Kyle Mills

#6. I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm 45.

Mick Jagger

#7. And I'm not going to be my dad's clone. And women don't turn me on. And Oliver is my home." -Rusty (Christmas Kitsch)

Amy Lane

#8. You can get used to horror, he thought. When it has lost immediacy and is no longer pungent and has become a steady diet. When it has degraded to a chain of mind-numbing events. ("Lover When You're Near Me")

Richard Matheson