Giorno Quotes

#1. One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!

E. M. Forster

#2. But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.

Eduard Shevardnadze

#3. Such power I gave the people as might do,
Abridged not what they had, now lavished new,
Those that were great in wealth and high in place
My counsel likewise kept from all disgrace.
Before them both I held my shield of might,
And let not either touch the other's right.

Plutarch

#4. There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that when I try to write a novel. I kind of want a moment that's explosive, and I want everything gathered into that.

Alice Munro

#5. Some people feed your ego, but starve your soul.

Steve Maraboli

#6. I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.

Albert Ellis

#7. You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be tempted out of a loch and shot full of morphine, full of corridors, lies, loose vegetation, pockets of stones.

Michael Ondaatje

#8. Our strength is seen in the things we stand for; our weakness is seen in the things we fall for.

Theodore Epp

#9. I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative.

Steve Ballmer

#10. Rhythm is a means of organizing sound into specific energy formulas to harmonize the mind and body. Chanting, rhythmic breathing and drumming form an ancient technology for directly synchronizing the mind/body complex, creating conditions for psychological and physical healing.

Layne Redmond

#11. I don't need it. I don't want it. And you cheated me out of it.

John Giorno

#12. Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. There was a time when I thought I was doing a good thing with good guys for a good cause. Looking back, I think I really wanted to be a warrior.

Steven Seagal

#14. No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

Honore De Balzac

#15. I like working as a director most.

Stephen Chow

#16. It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be ...

Bob Dylan

#17. Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.

Renata Adler