Irredentist Quotes

#1. Umberto Poli was born in Trieste in 1883, when the city was at its zenith as the major port of the Habsburgs. The irredentist sympathies of Umberto's Italian-speaking parents can be detected in their giving him the first name of the Italian emperor.

Susan Stewart

#2. Fooles give to please all but their owne.

George Herbert

#3. My earlier metaphor had been wrong, I discovered. The splash of ink from the pen dropping onto the page looked nothing like a spray of blood at all.

Lyndsay Faye

#4. Women, "the softer sex", are expected to bare this emotional performance yet accept the fact it is undervalued, both classified as an intrinsic skill that accompanies living whilst female, and the belief that it cannot be taught formally, so is less valuable

Dawn Foster

#5. He must examine his objectives and see that true progress is achieved through moving forward to a better way of life, rather than upward to total life incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

#6. A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.

Mac DeMarco

#7. One of the greatest lies ever told is that there's no power in vulnerability.

Dianna Hardy

#8. It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we share the planet with and the places that are endangered or being lost.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#9. The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

Stendhal

#10. Underneath all notions of justice is a set of faith assumptions that are essentially religious, and these are often not acknowledged.

Timothy Keller

#11. Something has either gone very wrong with this place, or something has gone very wrong with me.
I honestly don't know which one it is.

Paul Blackwell

#12. I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.

David Rockefeller

#13. Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.

David Sedaris

#14. Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body.

Hugh Dancy

#15. If I go back home to Wittenberg, I'll lie down in a coffin and give the maggots a fat doctor to eat.

Martin Luther

#16. If we would change the world, we must first change people's thoughts.

David O. McKay