Orsigna Quotes

#1. Only if we manage to see the universe as a single entity, in which every part reflects the whole and whose great beauty lies precisely in its variety, will we be able to understand exactly who and where we are.
Letters agains the war: Letter from Orsigna, 2001.

Tiziano Terzani

#2. Leopold, one of the reporters who broke the Enron story, is now breaking his own story: how he got addicted to cocaine, committed grand theft, cleaned himself up and found happiness as a 'news junkie.' This scrappy memoir ... might become required reading for aspiring journalists.

Publishers Weekly

#3. Find the thing that stirs your heart and make room for it

Joan D. Chittister

#4. When you love people, you want what's best for them, and sometimes what's best for them isn't you.

J.M. Darhower

#5. I'm used to working with restrictions and that's when you come up with the more creative stuff.

Taika Waititi

#6. Any work aspiring to be art however humble should carry its justification in every line.

Joseph Conrad

#7. Given greater freedom about where to send their children, parents of a kind would flock together and so prevent a healthy intermingling of children from decidedly different backgrounds.

Milton Friedman

#8. Miriam - I'll give you any flowers you want!' Rhapsodising over the thousand scents of her body, I exclaimed: 'I'll grow orchids from your hands, roses from your breasts. You can have magnolias in your hair ... !'
'And in my heart?'
'In your womb I'll set a fly-trap!

J.G. Ballard

#9. In the alternate universe of conservative talk radio, the killing of Bin Laden coincidentally happened on Barack Obama's watch. He had to be kicked dragging and screaming into authorizing it, and even then he made lots of mistakes.

Jackson Katz

#10. All beings are encompassed within one all-encompassing great energy: So I understood from the coolness of this morning's passing breeze.

Wumen Huikai

#11. Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Charles De Montesquieu

#12. The late Kenyan Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said, the higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#13. She didn't mind the sacrifice. It seemed enough for a life, to give yourself to music the way nuns give themselves to God. To vow. To surrender. Only music, after all, made life bearable. Only with music did she feel--what was it? Free? Happy? No, it was something else. Awake.

Carolina De Robertis