Tornati Forni Quotes

#1. We pay attention to what we are told to attend to, or what we're looking for, or what we already know ... what we see is amazingly limited.

Daniel Simons

#2. It's uncomfortable for me, but at least they're bouquets. They're not bricks or tomatoes yet, although it's gonna feel nice to get that big, rotten tomato right in the face, just get it out of the way.

John Fullbright

#3. The Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts.

Gautama Buddha

#4. Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real

Plutarch

#5. Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. There are people whose external reality is generous because it is transparent, because you can read everything, accept everything, understand everything about them: people who carry their own sun with them.

Carlos Fuentes

#8. You can't fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up.

George Carlin

#9. Do nice things for people who may be less fortunate than you.

Robert Cheeke

#10. What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.

Maurice Sendak

#11. Mindfulness has never been more important considering how the events of the world move in such an accelerated, frantic time. Our attention goes from here to the next thing to the next thing, and we're triggered from one response of fear to one of connection to the threat of loss.

Barnet Bain

#12. Be careful because cyberspace is a two way street those that hunt and stalk and troll can also become the hunted by those that they harass and attack. Cyberspace has a definite dark side.

Don A. Holbrook

#13. 'Utopia' is a positive and constructive program that gives people the opportunity, if you can start all over again, start from scratch and create laws and make decisions, will you be able to build a society that is better than the one we have; will it be chaos or happiness.

John De Mol Jr.

#14. What mostly prevents black people from voting is that drug laws send them to prison, and then they can't vote.

Bill Maher

#15. And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.

Albert Camus