Rodolico Firenze Quotes

#1. One of the things I'd learned ... was how to take a compliment. Just say, "Thank you." It's the only response a confident person can make.

Neil Strauss

#2. Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path.

Ellen DeGeneres

#3. The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music.

Ernest Newman

#4. Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.

Confucius

#5. I was recruited by the former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. And I never forgot his key message to me when he was encouraging me to come in. He said: "You must hold fast to your values. If you have to compromise your values in order to join us, you lose your value to us."

Vivian Balakrishnan

#6. Oh but you wouldn't believe,
This book is the fruit of knowledge from Eden;
It was written once by Adam and Eve,
After it was forbidden

Stephan Attia

#7. There was something out there.
And it was getting us.

A.B. Shepherd

#8. There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate.

Ben Bradlee

#9. My age is my own private business and I intend to keep it so - if I can. I am not so old that I am ashamed of my age and I am not so young that I couldn't have written my book and that is all the public needs to know about my age.

Margaret Mitchell

#10. The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

Saint Augustine

#11. People who mean well always do badly. They are like the ladies who wear clothes that don't fit them in order to show their piety. Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical. Man

Oscar Wilde

#12. Very often a job will come along that speaks to the place you're in as a person at that very moment. And usually once I've done it I feel like that part is over.

Martha Plimpton

#13. The Congress leadership always denied responsibilities to me both within the government and within the party organisation ... They would always tell me my image as a Hindu leader was a constraint on my capacity as a political leader.

Satpal Maharaj