Guareschi Giovannino Quotes

#1. I didn't cry when I left free-booting, smash-and-grab papers that would have appeared to be far more natural homes for me and, at the risk of being vulgar, paid far better for my services.

Julie Burchill

#2. That word again. Happy. It's a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It's a trap.Before anything else happened, there was me in bed, thinking of who you used to be.
I don't want you to think I forgot.

David Levithan

#3. Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified.

Ho Chi Minh

#4. I think it is very important in this business to be an individual.

Lee Ann Womack

#5. Once, I loved. I stumbled here and there, but I loved well. It was definitive, remarkable. My compass.

Cat Porter

#6. To the truly driven (which one has to be to survive in the high stakes, competitive world of show business), lack of opportunity means nothing. The TDs always think numbers are for everyone else and don't involve them.

K Callan

#7. Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze.

Giovannino Guareschi

#9. When I was a kid, I was super shy.

Rachel Dratch

#10. You go to church to respect God, not the priest. By not going to church, you disrespect God, not the priest.
- Don Camillo

Giovannino Guareschi

#11. No, Don Camillo; you didn't exactly steal it. Peppone had two cigars in his pocket. Peppone is a Communist. He believes in sharing things. By skillfully relieving him of one cigar, you only took your fair share.

Giovannino Guareschi

#12. I know she is of the Devil, for I cannot have my mind from her." From trial transcript of accuser of Mary Bliss Parsons.

Kathy-Ann Becker

#13. When God gives you an inch, don't take a mile.

Giovannino Guareschi

#14. How do you say that physically, you're okay, when everything is not.

Courtney Summers

#15. Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths

Tony Benn

#16. Lord, my hands were made for blessing, but not my feet!

Giovannino Guareschi

#17. You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it.

Giovannino Guareschi

#18. -I die. Before I die my body turns hair-side-in. People come from everywhere to see the insides of themselves. But the sight makes them lose the will, and all die. O the embarrassment.

Joe Haldeman

#19. Those who have actually experienced daily fellowship with Christ know that it surpasses all worldly activities.

Billy Graham

#20. We need a Jesus or a Buddha or..

Glenn Beck

#21. Wake him or put a bullet through his brain. No one will protest. Or leave him - but I suggest choosing, my dear. I have learned it is best to be haunted by one's actions rather than one's lack of them.

Gordon Dahlquist