Costato Quotes

#1. We pay for vice by the knowledge that we are wicked; we pay for pleasure when we find out too late that we are nothing.

Cyril Connolly

#2. I'm like the child who buries
her head in the pillow
so as not to see, the child who tells herself
that light causes sadness -

Louise Gluck

#3. Fracking opens up vast tracts of the U.S. to exploitation by gas drillers. There's enough energy under our feet to last us for decades, maybe centuries.

Kenneth Fisher

#4. I'm too old for amusingly neurotic misunderstandings.

Dennis Liggio

#5. Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.

Fredrik Bajer

#6. Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

Tony Snow

#7. Life flies by, especially the bit that's worth living.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#8. In the supermarket Harry had bought a pizza grandiosa which he heated in the oven. He thought how odd it was to be sitting in Sweden, eating Italian food made in Norway.

Jo Nesbo

#9. I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

Robin Day

#10. It grows inside you, poisonous and festering, and it tells you its name is Pride, but it's a liar. Its name is Hate.

Clifton Adams

#11. Hope is delicate suffering.

Amiri Baraka

#12. The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.

Timothy Keller

#13. There will always be a just fight and a cause to die for.

Rawi Hage