Ragone Foundations Quotes

#1. How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? ... All will end in death, all!

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Sometimes in Brazil, I work harder to make characters different and believable and to overcome the persona I have.

Rodrigo Santoro

#3. The apology from the arsonist takes up space that could otherwise be used to remove one's self from the fire. HStanbrough

Harvey Stanbrough

#4. The future of the Republican Party and the future of America is based on a values system and the issues that drive those values are on our side.

Tim Scott

#5. I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.

R. Kelly

#6. Aggression means emotions. Emotions means you're gonna get off your plan and that means you'll lose the fight.

Wladimir Klitschko

#7. I didn't know there could be an almost kiss. It seems like the sort of thing that either happens or it doesn't.
Oh no ... There's an entire universe of near misses out there, kisses that almost were, but weren't.

Lauren Willig

#8. If you give a poor man an acre of land around his house, he will be pleased and stay there for life. Build a wall around that acre, however, and all he will want is to escape.

Deepak Chopra

#9. Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

#10. A Man having found a Lion in his path undertook to subdue him by the power of the human eye; and near by was a Rattlesnake engaged in fascinating a small bird. "How are you getting on, brother?" the Man called out to the other reptile, without removing his eyes from those of the Lion.

Ambrose Bierce

#11. My principles are simple. Protect the Earth. Serve the People, and Explore the Universe

Jerry Brown

#12. She already knew that he'd decided to leave - knew before he opened his mouth to speak. But for one last minute, she could pretend that he was hers to keep. For one last minute, she held him, and let him hold her.

Rob Thomas

#13. The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature.

Piet Oudolf