Mondaini Vianello Quotes

#1. Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.

Moses Finley

#2. I wasted years worrying about what other people thought.

Amy Waldman

#3. I often calculate odds on horse races; the civil service computermen frequently program such requests. But the results are so at variance with expectations that I have concluded either that the data is too meager, or the horses or riders are not honest. Possibly all three.

Robert A. Heinlein

#4. A nod is as good as a wink to a blind badger.

Louise Rennison

#5. I seem to be on a road, walking, greeting the hedgerows, the rose-hips, the apples and thorn. I seem to be on a road, walking, familiar with neighbors, high-handed with cattle, smelling the sea, and alone. Already, I know the names of things. I can kick a stone.

Annie Dillard

#6. Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.

Timothy Keller

#7. We noted before that the passion of compassion was singularly absent from the minds and hearts of the men who made the American Revolution.

Hannah Arendt

#8. God wasn't powerful because he was right. He was right because he was powerful.

Genevieve

#9. The dangerous enemies of your species are fundamentalism, intolerance, separatism, extremism, hostility and prejudicial fear, be it religious, atheistic or political.

Abhijit Naskar

#10. It got hard to juggle the funny on set and then even harder in post-production.

Jerusha Hess

#11. You a fever I am learning to live with

Richard Siken

#12. 2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction.

Matt Taibbi

#13. Until our hearts find complete security and significance in God's unconditional love, we will never be satisfied.

Renee Swope