Donato Carrisi Quotes

#1. Tweets are not diseased rings of glitchy minds. They're epigrams, aphorisms, maxims, dictums, taglines, captions, slogans, and adages. Some are art, some are commercial; these are forms with integrity.

Virginia Heffernan

#2. The dead would be buried, and over time everything would be absorbed. All that remained would be a vague memory in their souls, the waste left by an inevitable process of self-preservation.

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#3. Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.

Haruki Murakami

#4. When hands are joined, no one can point fingers.

Jason Mraz

#5. As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.

Bobby Sherman

#6. If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.

Hosea Ballou

#8. Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.

John Dryden

#9. How many people meet by chance and then separate as if nothing has happened, without knowing that they were perfect for each other?

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#10. Sometimes you need darkness to see things better:

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#11. Yet he knew things he would have preferred not to know. Things about men and the evil they do. Things so terrible as to make anyone's confidence waver, and contaminate anyone's heart forever. He looked at the people around him, people who lived without that burden of knowledge, and envied them.

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#12. [ ... ] there exists something beyond what we have in front of us. Something equally real, but that a camera cannot perceive. So I have to learn that sometimes it is necessary to give oneself up to the mystery. And accept that it is not granted to us to understand everything.

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#13. Zombie Super Powers, activate, you fucking bitches.

Diana Rowland

#14. The fact that I have a job that people even watch is an incredible gift.

Nick Offerman

#15. In spite of the knowledge that there were any ways in which I could fail, I had taken the first step.

Paulo Coelho

#16. Like the whole range of other human emotions, it's just a matter of chemistry. We are all nothing but machines made of flesh.

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#17. And you have to be careful with illusionists: sometimes evil deceives us by assuming the simplest form of things.

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#18. When we see something like this we forget the most important and most obvious thing ... those butterflies will never fly again."
"It's unnatural, and yet it's so seductive ... "
"That's exactly the effect that death has on some individuals. That's why serial killers exist.

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#19. Out similar characteristics in everyone. For example, law students were undisciplined and competitive, medical students strict and lacking a sense of humor, philosophy

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#20. We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside, because we're inside. God forbid something like a cockroach comes inside, or some dust.

Diane Ackerman

#21. The Bible nowhere teaches that the church will ultimately convert the whole world to Jesus Christ. There has never been a generation in history, nor will there ever be generation, in which the majority of the people will believe in Christ.

Billy Graham