Dialetto Romano Quotes

#1. I felt a crack in my defenses - a weak place where truth knifed and twisted and pried for an opening

Julianne Donaldson

#2. Without science, everything is a miracle.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#3. The prestige of the news is founded on the unstated assumption that our lives are forever poised on the verge of critical transformation thanks to the two driving forces of modern history: politics and technology.

Alain De Botton

#4. If I was President of the United States, I'd rather be right than interesting. If I was CEO of a company, I'd rather be right than interesting. But I'm a journalist - what journalist would rather be right than interesting?

Malcolm Gladwell

#5. Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#6. We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.

Wilma Mankiller

#7. Croatia has been glorious - it's so beautiful, and I want to go back as often as I can.

Emilia Clarke

#8. You can never go further than your own thoughts.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.

Oscar Niemeyer

#10. adversity bends the heart as fire bends the stubborn steel, and those who are no longer their own governors, and the denizens of their own free independent state, must crouch before strangers.

Walter Scott

#11. As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.

P. J. O'Rourke

#12. I'm a true reactionary. Like all patricians, I'd like to restore the original republic, which we lost 40 years ago when Harry Truman imposed the national security state on us, which has kept us at war, hot or cold, for almost half a century, and it's got us $4 trillion into debt.

Gore Vidal

#13. I give people 'If You Came Softly' when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.

Justine Larbalestier

#14. The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#15. [A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.

Thomas Jefferson