Villa Padierna Estates Quotes

#1. No person can get very far in this life on a 40 hour week.

J. Willard Marriott

#2. They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth.

George Mikes

#3. Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. I am against nationalism, and I am against patriotism. They are both the dark side. It is time not simply to redefine a kinder-and-gentler patriotism, but to sweep away the notion and acknowledge it as morally, politically, and intellectually bankrupt. It is time to scrap patriotism.

Robert Jensen

#5. You can tell your story any way you damn well please

Jandy Nelson

#6. If I run I may fall down and break myself.
But could you not be mended? asked the girl.
Oh yes; but one is never so pretty after being mended, you know.

L. Frank Baum

#7. Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you'll be fine.

John Eldredge

#8. I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositions.

Peter Greenaway

#9. So the storm passed and every one was happy.

Kate Chopin

#10. It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space.

Don DeLillo

#11. Of him to whom less is given, less will be required, but our utmost exertions are required of us all.

Anne Bronte

#12. This is a nation that loves our freedom, loves our country.

George W. Bush

#13. When smashing monuments, save the pedestals. They always come in handy.

Stanislaw Lem

#14. I'm a bit of a recluse, very fond of my own company.

Billie Whitelaw

#15. If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.

James C. Collins