All Quotes

"This is the problem with you girls...You will study hard, score high marks and then give it all up after marriage."

"I can only describe myself as a part-time scientist, if a pure mathematician can be called a scientist at all."

"It doesn’t matter what you say, Stephanie — say it enough and people will believe you.’”"

"Education has no boundaries or age limit."

"A keen artist can review a book from anywhere but may view the content from a different point of view."

"You just need to know what people are interested in," she says. "For some people, it's dogs; for someone else, it's a novel they've wanted to read."

"Don't know the manners of good society, eh? Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal – you sockdologizing old man-trap!"

"You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier, You, who, with mocking pencil, wont to trace, Broad for self-complacent British sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face."

"Yes, he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil, and confute my pen, To make me own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter a true-born king of men."

"How his quaint wit made home-truth seem more true."

"He went about his work — such work as few Ever had laid on head and heart and hand — As one who knows, where there’s a task to do, Man’s honest will must Heaven’s good grace command."

"The Old World and the New, from sea to sea, Utter one voice of sympathy and shame! Sore heart, so stopped when it at last beat high, Sad life, cut short just as its triumph came."

"This is an abuse of power and what dictators do. It's unnecessary and not needed."

"There's no targeted effort here to find criminals. Like they said we're going to do. They're sweeping up friends and neighbors of people who are just trying to find jobs at these worksites outside of Home Depot."

"It was the sheriffs who got things under control, not the National Guard. In downtown L.A. that night, it was the LAPD who got things under control, it was not the National Guard."

"You bring up the National Guard, you rise tensions. People come out and this is what you're starting to see happen."

"This is a sign of a dictator who takes over a National Guard against the governor's will, [and] against all elected officials' will. The presence of the National Guard in itself is sending that message, "we're here to take you over." This is to empower the president to flex his muscles."

"There is a way to do enforcement. It's targeted enforcement. It's been done over and over again and hasn't resulted in this. This is really a distraction."

"We saw that happening starting when [he said he's] going to defund California and stop giving the federal money. Now he's taking it to the immigration front. So this is his game plan and we can't let people fall into it. We have to make sure not to take the bait, not to do the violence."

"They're just treating everybody as a criminal. They're not distinguishing between who are the real criminals versus -- which are the folks that they're saying they're going after, versus everybody else."

"If you are going after serious criminal offenders, we support that. There is no disagreement about that. But they're not doing targeted enforcement. What they're doing is, they're doing mass deportation, round up of just everybody, let's see who we can get."

"Some of those people, they're just dismissing their cases. They're trampling on due process. They're not even getting access to a lawyer."

"When you spread it out and say, we're just going to go get anybody we can, that's actually making us less safe, because now you're using resources to get people who are their friends, their neighbors."

"I've gotten a piece of the American dream, but now I'm running to make sure others have that same opportunity and that in a nutshell is why I'm running for Congress."

"The more the metropolitan “nervous network” expands, the more it devours the surrounding territory, the more its ‘spirit’ seems to be lost; the more “powerful” it becomes, the less it seems able to order and rationalize the life that takes place there. The metropolitan intellect, its Nervenleben, undergoes a sort of “spatial crisis” – which is perfectly analogous to that undergone by the Leviathan State, the modern State in its territorially determined sovereignty. The powers that determine metropolitan growth are finding it increasingly difficult to “territorialize” themselves, to “embody” themselves in a territorial order, to give rise to forms of coexistence that are legible and observable in the territory, spatially."

"It is worth repeating. In the name of humanity, the most brutal atrocities have been committed – first and foremost, declaring one's enemy to be a beast. And so, in the name of equality, individuality, cultures, and destinies have been massacred. It is time to silence all the “big words” – or at least prevent the loudmouths from using them. But is it really inevitable, in order to understand the meaning of “equality,” to think of a natural essence of man, that is, to strip him of all his personality, to ‘free’ him from his history? If so, “equality” would tragically conflict with freedom. But perhaps, instead, it is legitimate to understand equality as the condition that allows us to express our individual diversity, as having equal means precisely in order to be able to freely diverge. And to be able to become ‘friends’ precisely because of, and not in spite of, this free distinction. In the ‘fatal’ term fraternité I think this should be preferred to friendship. ‘Egalité thinks of friendship as, precisely, friendship between equals; and therefore speaks of brotherhood. The equality and freedom we have mentioned, on the other hand, think of friendship that can bind even the most distant stars."

"Sgalambro was a follower of Schopenhauer, he was Schopenhauer. I don't think this critical and essentially pessimistic approach did Battiato much good, as he lost some of that irreverence, that paradoxical, ironic, sometimes even completely light-hearted energy that he had in his work, such as Bandiera bianca."

"(About the contrast between those who are in favor of civil unions and same-sex parenting and those who are against them) [...] I would like someone to explain to me what a traditional family is. Is it that of fifth-century Athens? That of Sparta? That of Rome? [...] The patriarchal family of fifty years ago? The “wife, husband, two children” family? Is that it? Is the traditional family that of the last fifty years? [...] The family is a socio-cultural product. [...] It is therefore quite clear that its concept is changing. [...] These changes [...] should take place with a minimum of [...] cultural foundation, awareness, and conscience. Not in the spirit of “We want everything” and everything that comes to mind is a “natural right” because then two “naturalisms” are opposed: the Catholic one, which is totally absurd because everything can be Christian except a ‘naturalist’; and the other one, the so-called “natural rights,” which are a phantom [...]."

"(About the COVID-19) I got the vaccine. You have to do it; you have to obey the law. Philosophers obey the law, even when they think it's completely insane. Socrates teaches us that."

"Nietzsche's assertion of the death of God is not at all as vulgar and atheistic as some might think."

"An author such as Friedrich Nietzsche has nothing to do with vulgar atheism."

"The true form of atheism, which has nothing to do with either Nietzsche or Heidegger, is the view that, in a nutshell, we are merely beings in the world: we are settled, domesticated in our worldly existence."

"The phenomenon we are experiencing in Italy is similar to that of all the historic centers of major cities around the world, where more profitable functions than residential ones become competitive."

"In Venice, there were two million tourists a year in the 1970s; now there are thirty million. And it is an irresistible pressure, a demand that will continue to grow. A few years ago, there were no Chinese, no Russians. Now there are, in droves. It will be tough. Consumption in the city is increasing dramatically."

"If we want to resist the exodus from historic centers, we must give people the opportunity to live there on equal terms with those who live elsewhere. The cost of living for those who live in the center cannot be double that of those who live ten kilometers away. Today, however, living in the center is very expensive. The tax and subsidy system needs to be reviewed, both for residents and for craft and commercial activities."

"Ég Ólöf Tara er ein af hverjum fjórum, ég er ein af þeim sem kærði ekki. Kannski einn daginn verð ég tölfræðin um konuna sem lést langt fyrir aldur fram vegna afleiðinga ofbeldis, með öllum hinum konunum."

"The time spent with a lover is an ending in itself, not a prelude to a more desirable circumstance"

".I just feel that a man's appetite for plurality corresponds to their tremendous reproductive potential."

"It wasn't love. It wasn't romance. I don't know what to call it, but it was much more refreshing than fairy-tales and deceitfully implied suggestions of a future together"

"I realized something profound: love is it's own entity. It stands by itself or else I wouldn't have been able to remain in love without the man who inspired it."

"I wanted all that was due to me"

"She screenshot a picture from my personal Facebook page,"

"I didn't know her, didn't know personally. She was not a friend of mine.”"

"She used her state cell phone to send that picture to her colleagues on their state cell phones, telling them: ‘Look who this is. Look who her husband is. Her husband is Mark Robinson.”"

"“I was doing this way before anybody knew his name"

"We felt like we were being targeted from the beginning"

"Some of you may or may not be aware that my husband is the Lt. Governor of North Carolina and is currently running for governor of North Carolina"

"With that being said, my life has gotten extremely busy over the last few years and those obligations no longer allow me the time to be a sponsoring organization.”"

"You have to have someone who understands that both of you are working. If you are in an entrepreneurial business you are not working traditional business hours. You are working whatever hours the business dictates. Some people are married to individuals who want that hot meal on the table when they get home, the clothes ironed every morning and want you there just so they can look at you goo-goo eyed. That is not the life Howard and I live. We miss each other coming and going a lot of times. You have to have an individual or a partner who shares your perspective and understands the demands that are placed upon you."

"Some of the biggest discussions you have when you first get married and throughout your marriage is about money and inevitably somebody is a spender and somebody is a saver. When we first got married Howard was a musician, it was pretty easy for him to go out and buy a clarinet or a saxophone and I would be thinking with the money we were going to do something else with? Or he’d say, “I bought that big screen TV for the house.” We had to have a talk because he was not supposed make decisions like that independent of me. Both of our incomes contributed to the net of our household. So, if one of us wants to buy something that is a significant expenditure that is a discussion point. We also discussed something else. I said I did not want us to be absorbed in each other. We are two individuals, we work well together, but we don’t repeat each other. We both respect what each other is doing. We need time away from each other doing our own things and we need time together. We decided early on to take two trips a year. We took one family trip with the kids and one with just us. So much happens over the course of a year when you have three kids that are very close (in age) together. You spend your life running around getting them involved and engaging them, and it’s easy for you to get lost in them and not have any time for yourself. We made some very good decisions, and we put the issues on the table early so it was no surprise moving forward. It was plain, simple hard work and we did it together."