Carinci Francesca Quotes

#1. Failure is only the name that we give to our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

#2. You never give such relationships a thought, To give a thought, to take a thought is a function of dissociation, distance. You can't exercise memory until you've removed yourself from memory's source.

Joyce Carol Oates

#3. Ask Robespierre. Ask the man with the conscience which is more important, your friend or your country - ask him how he weighs an individual in the scheme of things. Ask him which comes first, his old pals or his new principles. You ask him, Camille.

Hilary Mantel

#4. If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.

Willem De Kooning

#5. Politics is not an isolated, individualist adventure. Women really need to emerge as a power to be the countervailing power to the men. And Eleanor Roosevelt's really the dynamo and the spearhead of that effort.

Blanche Wiesen Cook

#6. Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment. It is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it.

Khaled Hosseini

#8. Mary Poppins is magical and fun.

Julie Andrews