Parenti Serpenti Quotes

#1. As Rachel Carson once observed, referring to a very different but at the same time profoundly similar problem: "Time is the essential ingredient, but in the modern world there is no time.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#2. Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

Boethius

#3. We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them reimposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.

Margaret Thatcher

#4. Jesus Fucking Christ, she says with that flawless hardpan accent of hers. It is an expression that always strikes Landsman as curious, or at least as something that he would pay money to see.

Michael Chabon

#5. Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.

Marissa Mayer

#6. People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.

Christina Ricci

#7. Guilt didn't put any butter on the bread of life.

Leonore Fleischer

#8. That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn't match reality.

Stefanos Livos

#9. Don Quixote is not just Don Quixote;
La Mancha is not just geography;
It is our personal territory
Terra Nostra.

Dejan Stojanovic

#10. I am a sleeper. When you wake up at 4:30 in the morning to do a workout, you're sleepy at 8 in the evening. By 10 o'clock at the latest, I'm in bed.

Michelle Obama

#11. I didn't want to hurt him!" Ender cried. "Why didn't he just leave me alone!

Orson Scott Card

#12. Governance is not about maximization, but about optimization.

Pearl Zhu

#13. Passion is a must, Passion is a gaze, A wonder of lust

Richard Allen Whisenant

#14. By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.

Chris Chocola

#15. It appeared to him strange and marvelous that he should have stopped in the very same place as he used to do, as if he really imagined he could think the same thoughts now as then, and be interested in the same ideas and images as had interested him once ... not long ago.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky