Veneciano Drinking Quotes

#1. So he dreams himself the life he cannot have?" "Exactly. But we, who can do anything, we refuse to live our dreams on the basis that they are not practical. So tell me, who is to be pitied more?

Helen Simonson

#2. It's hard to live a good life ... It seems like the Devil don't ever let up.

Donald Ray Pollock

#3. The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#4. They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.

Joseph D. Early

#5. Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.

Cameron Conaway

#6. For when a box is shut, you cannot tell what it might contain, so you might as well say it contains everything, because, really, it could contain anything, see? But when you open it, you affect what is inside. Observing something changes it, that's a law, nothing to be done.

Catherynne M Valente

#7. We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behavior as the result of forces beyond their control.

Anna C. Salter

#8. If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

Albert Camus

#9. Most people don't think about plyometrics when they think about powerful strength. But I do lots of them to build mine.

Allyson Felix

#10. I have lost stories and many starts of novels before. Not always as punishment for 'telling,' but more often as a result of something having gone cold and dead because of a hiatus. Telling, you see, is the same as a hiatus. It means you're not doing it.

Cynthia Ozick

#11. People seem to be looking for discipline in a topsy-turvy world.

Gordon B. Hinckley