Olimpio Fusco Quotes

#1. These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable.

Winifred Holtby

#2. The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.

Anthony Of Padua

#3. I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all ...

Anais Nin

#4. Even as the roots, shut in the darksome earth,
Share in the tree top's joyance, and conceive
Of sunshine and wide air and winged things,
By sympathy of nature, so do I

James Russell Lowell

#5. Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language.

Stephen D. Krashen

#6. All of which raises another question: If Obamacare is so great, why do so many people want to get out from under it?

Michael Barone

#7. Automobiles consumed "20 percent of the steel, 12 percent of the aluminum, 10 percent of the copper, 51 percent of the lead, 95 percent of the nickel, 35 percent of the zinc, and 60 percent of the rubber used in the U.S." by 1933.

Jeremy Rifkin

#8. I'm not particularly worried by any of the songs we've written in the past, except for some of the really early stuff which is total tripe.

Bernard Fanning

#9. Knitting is still trying to teach me
That no matter how well you knit, looking at your work too closely isn't helpful. It's like kissing with your eyes open: nobody looks good that close up.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#10. At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which relationship, what decision I take. Every moment counts. Every decision counts. And if we look at our decisions in life as such, we stop battling and start winning.

Yehuda Berg

#11. Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.

Kiki Smith

#12. It's like the Vatican's porn collection," Zeb told her. "Safe in our hands.

Margaret Atwood

#13. We say our souls want joy, but they don't," she said. "They want what they already know, joyful or not.

Daniel Abraham

#14. People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

Adam Carolla

#15. Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.

C.S. Lewis