Raffaello Network Quotes

#1. I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.

James Carville

#2. I hate often and easily. I hate, for example, people who sit with their legs splayed. People who claim to give 110 percent. People who call themselves "comfortable" when what they mean is decadently rich. You're so judgmental, my shrink tells me, and I cry all the way home, thinking of it.

Jenny Offill

#3. In [man's] mouth is ever the bittersweet taste of life and death, unknown to the trees. Without respite he is dragged by the two wild horses, memory and hope; and he is tormented by a secret that he can never tell.

Hope Mirrlees

#4. I followed him into the shadows asking myself why I had said that; why, when you clearly like someone, there is an absurd inclination to show otherwise. We reveal false versions of ourselves, a protective veil we weave with words, then wonder why there are misunderstandings.

Chloe Thurlow

#5. There is no peace more wonderful than the peace we enjoy when faith shows us God in all created things.

Jean-Pierre De Caussade

#6. Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory.

Jeremy Taylor

#7. To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

Albert Ellis

#8. You can close the city gates, but you can't close the people's mouths.

Ella Leya

#9. What a shot! Now tell me Zurov wastes his time making holes in five-kopeck pieces! From forty paces straight into the back of the head, and you have to take the poor light into account.

Boris Akunin

#10. Everyone has a right to a job, everyone has a right to an education, everyone has a right to health care, everyone has a right to retirement security, everyone has a right to housing, and everyone has a right to peace.

Dennis Kucinich

#11. And indeed, here I am posing an idle question of my own now: which is better - cheap happiness or sublime suffering?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. The best thing in the world for each of us is that which we can best do, because it gives us the feeling of being useful. That's happiness.

Pearl S. Buck

#13. Standing side by side children with our heads together, we are trying to understand their learning based on what we observe as they use the social, technical, symbolic, and material resources at their disposal.

Denny Taylor

#14. Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Thomas Aquinas

#15. I get to go to work and come home with something interesting or enriching or astonishing.

Diane Sawyer