Caccioppoli Tessuti Quotes

#1. Our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness

Samuel Johnson

#2. Like certain devotees, who think they can fool God and wrest a pardon by paying lip-service to prayer and adopting the humble attitude of the penitent, Therese humiliated herself, beat her chest, found words of repentance, without having anything in the bottom of her heart except fear and cowardice.

Emile Zola

#3. To imagine wasn't to escape but to go deeper; to see through to the secret life of the world.

Alison MacLeod

#4. "People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts.

Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

#5. Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.

George Saunders

#6. Especially when it comes to something like the awards, I find it kind of baffling that 'True Blood' has been snubbed so many times given the incredible range of acting they have on there; I mean, incredible storytelling and the incredible production values.

Denis O'Hare

#7. For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole.

Katy Perry

#8. Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.

Seneca The Younger

#9. Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.
Scripps: No.
Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation.

Alan Bennett

#10. France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

Marianne Faithfull

#11. The older I got, the more aware I became of time and how I was wasting mine.

Julie Murphy

#12. Therefore there is only one form of freedom for Stirner, "my power," and only
one truth, "the magnificent egotism of the stars.

Albert Camus

#13. I trust Cuba as a principled country. Cuba's strength is that it has been steadfast in its commitment to the principles of liberation, freedom, of resistance to the kind of institutionalized terrorism that the United States government does every day.

Assata Shakur

#14. When she's close enough, she extends her hand. "Hello, my name is Natalie. I'm Beatrice's mother." Beatrice. That name is so wrong for her.

Veronica Roth

#15. Out of gas ... I haven't heard that one in a long time.

Carey Lowell