Giovanni Papini Quotes

#1. Books as objects are not what books are, it's not what's important about them

Jo Walton

#2. To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

Sophocles

#3. If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just replicating other people's stuff, or, I don't even know what you're doing.

Neill Blomkamp

#4. There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him.

Sir Fulke Greville

#5. It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#6. Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.

William Shakespeare

#7. So much for keeping things business when it came to Jenna Darrow. If this had been a test, he figured he'd just failed it with flying colors.

Lara Adrian

#8. Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

Carly Fiorina

#9. Le religioni non sono altro che residuo dei vecchi tabu selvatici, sistemi di divieto con diverse sovrastrutture ideologiche."
" ... religions are nothing but remnant of the old wild taboos, prohibition systems with varying ideological superstructure.

Giovanni Papini

#10. There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love

Giovanni Papini

#11. Her hot attire did not signify promiscuity - contrary to the consensual interpretation of the other male teachers - but a kind of nostalgia: this was what she used to wear when she was happy, when she used to live the normal

Aleksandar Hemon

#12. Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life

Giovanni Papini

#13. One of the great things about the 'Arrow' crew is that no one is settling for what they did yesterday. They're always thinking about what they can do tomorrow.

Marc Guggenheim

#14. Humans: become atheists each and all! God will nevertheless welcome you with all his heart!

Giovanni Papini