Belvis Hospital Quotes

#1. It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. A savage desire for strong emotions and sensations burns inside me: a rage against this soft-tinted, shallow, standardized and sterilized life, and a mad craving to smash something up, a department store, say, or a cathedral, or myself.

Anonymous

#3. This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.

Angela Merkel

#4. The things that come out of a man are they that defile him, and to get rid of them a man must go into himself, be a convict, and scrub the floor of his cell.

George MacDonald

#5. I believe it's true that there's good and evil in everyone and it's a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail.

William Friedkin

#6. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.

Diane Setterfield

#7. Signori has all the tricks up his book.

Ray Wilkins

#8. As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, "O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!"

Ellen Glasgow

#9. It's not personal, it's strictly business

Al Pacino

#10. I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists.

Joseph Stiglitz

#12. Resentment had erased all ambiguity in our encounters with people like him; we had been polarized into "us" and "them.

Azar Nafisi