Quotes About Tancredi

#1. In context this is funny:
"Tancredi, we passed a beam of wood lying in front of Ginestra's house.Go and fetch it, it'll get you in all the quicker" (Concetta)

Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

#2. Tancredi, in an attempt to link gallantry with greed, tried to imagine himself tasting, in the aromatic forkfuls, the kisses of his neighbour Angelica, but he realised at once that the experiment was disgusting and suspended it, with a mental reserve about reviving this fantasy with the pudding

Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

#3. A woman either hates or loves. There's nothing in between.

Ika Natassa

#4. Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Helen Keller

#5. Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.

Ken Kesey

#6. No past and no future. Save for the fireworker himself, no one ever knows the grand finale is the grand finale until it's over. And at that point, wherever one is, one won't ever really have been anywhere else.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#7. I would have liked to come back in '300'; they did an origins film of '300' just recently, and it would have been fun to come back and see what happened to my character.

Robert Maillet

#8. I'll have you in my bed again, Sentinel. And at my side. That is a promise.

Chloe Neill

#9. Legs pinched together like bread loafs in a shared pan, linebackers in adjacent seats flying coach fare, chubby cats eating from a single dish.

Dennis Vickers

#10. When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.

Henry Rollins

#11. We all love people who give credit to others for their success. Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn't blow their own horn and ask for ridiculous salaries and new yachts every year.

Adora Svitak

#12. Be quiet now and wait.
It may be that the ocean one,
the one we desire so to move into and become,
desires us out here on land a little longer,
going our sundry roads to the shore.

Rumi

#13. The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.

Ted Sizer

#14. Love God, and do as you like, say the Free Spirits. Yes; but as long as you like anything contrary to God's will, you do not love Him.

Meister Eckhart

#15. I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope and the books of the sophists.

Martin Luther

#16. Sometimes, teachers must be hard. People must be given a hard message because life is hard, and dying is hard,

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. Anyhow they're always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.

Ursula K. Le Guin