Top 18 Mazzantini Non Quotes
#1. My child, I don't know where people go when they die, but I know where they stay.
Margaret Mazzantini
#2. The perfection of yoga, therefore, does not terminate in voidness or impersonalism; on the contrary, the perfection of yoga is attained when one actually sees the Personality of Godhead in His eternal form.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#3. Life is a storeroom filled with boxes, some empty, some misplaced forever. We're what remains, what we've grabbed hold of.
Margaret Mazzantini
#4. He also said that he marvelled that among the Greeks, those who were skilful in a thing contend together; but those who have no such skill act as judges of the contest.
Diogenes Laertius
#5. You don't adopt a single child, you adopt the pain of the world. It's a litmus test of your incapacity.
Margaret Mazzantini
#6. I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story.
Jim Shepard
#8. Do not spare any reasonable expense to come at early and true information; always recollecting, and bearing in mind, that vague and uncertain accounts of things [are] ... more disturbing and dangerous than receiving none at all.
George Washington
#9. Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#10. Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
Stella Benson
#11. I fought tenaciously against what seemed to be my destiny; I struggled against my natural reaction with all my strength, because it was killing my dreams and forcing me to go in the wrong direction.
Margaret Mazzantini
#12. Ownership, that's what you give your kids. That's your legacy.
Prince
#13. Freedom is the foundation for all wonderful things in life.
Jeffrey Tucker
#14. There's no explaining love. It stands by itself; it makes mistakes and struggles on its own.
Margaret Mazzantini
#15. If you tell people what you are going to do, and you suggest it's going to be successful, you need to be successful. Because once you create those expectations and you don't fulfill them, when you already have a significant credibility problem, it just further degrades your credibility.
Chris Lehane
#16. But I can't pretend I don't know how little the goodwill of even the best surgeon can accomplish against the workings of fate. A man's hands are rooted firmly in the earth, Angela. God, if he exists, is behind our backs.
Margaret Mazzantini
#17. We were like two wolves that have chased a prey and lost it: They lie together in the dark woods, panting and weary, and they're still hungry.
Margaret Mazzantini
