Anna Maria Mozzoni Quotes

#1. It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.

Myrtle Reed

#2. That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

Hunter S. Thompson

#3. Very often you expect one thing from looking at the outside of it, but when you open it, there's something else entirely.

Lemony Snicket

#4. If you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!

William Makepeace Thackeray

#5. Not to destroy but to construct,
I hold the unconquerable belief
that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war
that nations will come together
not to destroy but to construct
and that the future belongs to those
who accomplish most for humanity.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#6. She has this curious heavy grace, like something out of its element making do in a heavier medium. Like she should be living in water.

Keri Hulme