Tessuto Non Quotes

#1. Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.

Juvenal

#2. This world is but canvas to our imaginations.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. Relaxing me from head to feet
Love masters me, the bitter sweet
O'er thy limbs breathing;
Yea, Eros now, the god born blind
Sweeps my soul like the mountain wind
Through the oaks seething.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#4. If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.

Pat Paulsen

#5. Still, she has an aura of mystery that stops her from being teased or singled out for typical high school unpleasantness. Her mother is a Sinclair.

E. Lockhart

#6. The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins. All the worst pleasures are purely spiritual: the pleasure of putting other people in the wrong, of bossing and patronising and spoiling sport, and back-biting, the pleasures of power, of hatred.

C.S. Lewis

#7. He'd grown unused to woods like this. He'd become accustomed to the Northwest, evergreen and shaded dark. Here he was surrounded by soft leaves, not needles; leaves that carried their deaths secretly inside them, that already heard the whispers of Autumn. Roots and branches that knew things.

Michael Montoure

#8. Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, What man does with his aloneness.

Kenneth Rexroth

#9. I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent ... towards the superb fulfillment of its individual potentialities, towards the greatest independence.

Alban Berg

#10. The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.

Samuel Johnson

#11. A modern-day conservator of Monticello says that Woodmont Jefferson as an amateur architect rather than a professional was that he made things more complicated than they needed to be for any practical purpose.

Bill Bryson

#12. Like breathing and swallowing, crying comes automatically to most kids, too.

R.J. Palacio

#13. I've done some bits of shockingly bad TV that have never been shown, or at least I hope they've never been shown ... Please don't dig them out!

Elliot Cowan

#14. The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

Frederick Soddy

#15. Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Mahatma Gandhi