Bonanno Quotes

#1. The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

William Shenstone

#2. Fiction is only a set of colors, however beautiful, passing over the landscape for a time - the spirit, perhaps, but not the substance.

Bill Bonanno

#3. I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?

Og Mandino

#4. Always-
the sharp,
plaintive edge
on the rim
of the spoon
of my giving.
(lines 8-13 of the poem 'Confessions')

Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno

#5. I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.

Hannibal Buress

#6. Mafia is a process,not a thing.Mafia is a form of clan-cooperation to witch it's individual members pledge lifelong loyalty ... Frienship,connections,family ties,trust,loyalty,obedience-this was the glue that held us together.

Joseph Bonanno

#7. It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis.

Margaret Wander Bonanno

#8. If a guy's talking to you at a club and you're having a long conversation, and then one of your friends comes up and he automatically devotes his attention to her, that's always a sign to look for. They're not always just doing it 'cause they're being 'friendly.' They want to look for somebody new.

Brody Jenner

#9. I am a dead man who wanders
registered nowhere

Ingeborg Bachmann

#10. First ladies are doing a lot. But the job remains undefined, frequently misunderstood, and subject to political attacks far nastier in some ways than those any President has ever faced.

Margaret Truman Daniel

#11. This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.

Euripides

#12. Try to be thoughtful,
don't make the poor man say it;
see how human he is,
he has children of his own,
it is your job to ask:
Is she dead?
And he will nod and say yes
And now he can never not nod.
And now he can never say no.
And now he can never not say
yes.

Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno

#13. To know a language intimately is to understand the soul of those who speak it.

Margaret Wander Bonanno

#14. It takes many steppingstones, you know, for a man to rise. None can do it unaided

Joseph Bonanno

#15. The Tang went into decline and people became discontented. There was hunger and unrest, and as is common at such times, the troublemakers looked to place the blame on the foreigners.

Amitav Ghosh

#16. It is better to struggle pursuing what matters than to excel at achieving the inconsequential.

D.A. Blankinship