Mappa Italia Quotes

#1. The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.

Jim Butcher

#2. I almost ran you down, remember? I have to be nice to you, so you don't have me arrested.

Kami Garcia

#3. One should not evoke violence by acting fearful.

Theo Van Gogh

#4. There are certain advantages in being cursed by all and sundry ... especially, it dispenses you with having to be nice to anybody ... there's nothing more emollient, stultifying, emasculating than wanting to be liked ... "not nice!" ... that does it, you're free! ...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#5. The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests, on what the well knows to be his last day, in the pass of Thermopylae, is not to be contemplated without admiration.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#6. If you don't know what you value in life, then you won't be able to make any meaningful decisions you can live with in the future.

Shannon L. Alder

#7. The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

Arthur Miller

#8. Fear is the only obstacle to love.

Tiffany L. Jackson

#9. Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.

Gerald W. Johnson