Illuminismo Treccani Quotes

#1. She was a stay-at-home mom who'd completed her job. Lost her job. A thundercloud of self-pity built in her emotional sky, but she fled from it, tried to outrun it, by lecturing herself aloud. "You haven't lost your family. They just don't live with you anymore. In lots of ways, that's a good thing.

Emily March

#2. Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.

Starhawk

#3. For a time I gave the appearance of defending Stalin. I didn't defend what he had done; the fact is, nobody could defend the things that Khrushchev revealed.

Tim Buck

#4. Satan has been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years!

Anton Szandor LaVey

#5. Your father doesn't fucking play games. you would never come home with a shamrock tattoo in that house.

Tina Fey

#6. The notion that we systematically adopt false beliefs to "protect the self" is illogical when you consider that whatever the mind is designed to do, it must be to get things done, not to make us happy.

Robert Kurzban

#7. Affirmations are so easy that some people think they are too simple to be effective.

Ruth Fishel

#8. Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

Siri Hustvedt

#9. Did you see the way she ran out of here? Like I had the plague or something."
"Who? The witch?"
"Aye."
"And this bothers you because ... "
"Well ... it's rude."
"Uh huh."
Brastias growled at his second in command. "Shut up.

G.A. Aiken

#10. 2. The instant the doors open, you want to push forward as hard as possible, in an effort to get onto the train without letting anybody off. This is very important. If anybody does get off, it is legal to tackle him and drag him back on.

Dave Barry

#11. They could only stare at Esme's shoes and wonder why she as wearing footwear that was so violent and impractical.

Lemony Snicket

#12. If there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me.

Jerry Fodor

#13. Death is the only thing that ever terrifies me. I hate it.

Oscar Wilde

#14. Never make a decision when you need to pee.

Leonard Cohen

#15. Fireflies danced around her like embers after someone has thrown a log into the stove.

Heather O'Neill