Manzoni Quotes

#1. But where is what I started for so long ago?
And why is it yet unfound?

Walt Whitman

#2. Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a little of what has already happened.

Alessandro Manzoni

#3. Music does not express any idea, but it gives rise to thousands.

Alessandro Manzoni

#4. I wish to go beyond the fire that burns me.

Francesco Petrarca

#5. I just wanted my daughter to grow up, get married, have children and get divorced like everyone else.

Cher

#6. Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims.

Alessandro Manzoni

#7. You will either do so convincingly and well, or you won't. But at least you will be plugged in to the moment in the process. Not flitting just outside of it, trying to keep everything together like one of those little heel-snapping Sheltie dogs.

Augusten Burroughs

#8. Let us offer our hearts, wretched and empty as they are, to God, that He may be pleased to fill them with that charity which amends the past, which ensures the future, which fears and trusts, weeps and rejoices in its knowledge; which becomes in every instance the virtue of which we stand in need.

Alessandro Manzoni

#9. One the advantages about this life is that you can hate someone without knowing him

Alessandro Manzoni

#10. When a friend, then, indulges in the joy unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he makes the latter, in his turn, feel the urge to taste the same joy himself.

Alessandro Manzoni

#11. A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

Chin-Ning Chu

#12. One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.

Bryan White

#13. I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.

Alessandro Manzoni

#14. Human beings tend to be unable to estimate how biased they are.

Jean-Francois Manzoni

#15. God doesn't start miracles without finishing them.

Alessandro Manzoni

#16. High school for me was not all that fun. I think it's a lot more fun after when you realize that high school ends, and everything that's important at that time is sort of not important if people don't like your jeans or whatever. It doesn't matter.

Leighton Meester

#17. He has a sellsword's conscience, she realized then. That is to say none at all.

George R R Martin

#18. Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#19. Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#20. The spring is the lovely time when we all hurry out in to the open to finally get to inhale fresh exhausts.

Carlo Manzoni

#21. A benefit of friendship is knowing whom to tell secrets to.

Alessandro Manzoni

#22. Astonishingly slimy and dangerous

David Baldacci