Urzis Italian Quotes

#1. You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.

Daniel Dennett

#2. This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.

Allen Iverson

#3. Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects with more or less academic eclecticism.

Hermann Broch

#4. The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

Chanakya

#5. I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.

Hugh Jackman

#6. Of course George Orwell was not a saint - he could be unfaithful to his wife and suspicious of democracy, for starters - and it's a good thing, too, because saints are always hard to take seriously.

William Giraldi

#7. You can't really know what you are made of until you are tested.

O.R. Melling

#8. The political system of the People's Republic of China can make things easy. Decisions are made quickly and results come quickly, too. In our democracy [in India], on the other hand, such things are extremely difficult.

Ratan Tata

#9. The shushumna is the tube that the kundalini passes up in the subtle body, and on one side is the ida and the other side is the pingala.

Frederick Lenz

#10. A prophet is the one who, when everyone else despairs, hopes. And when everyone else hopes, he despairs. You'll ask me why. It's because he has mastered the Great Secret: that the Wheel turns.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#11. My generation were all careerists.

Zaha Hadid

#12. The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation.

Jonathan Larson

#13. Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.

Corrie Ten Boom

#14. It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.

Karen Thompson Walker