Dante Alighieri Quotes
Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.
Dante Alighieri
Quotes to Explore
-
For all their incoherence and senseless rage, their message is attractive to those layers of the population who yearn for some order in their lives. If the fanatics promise to feed them and educate their children they are prepared to forgo the delights of CNN and BBC World.
Tariq Ali
-
Nullam rem e nihilo gigni divinitus umquam.
Lucretius
-
Don’t say: 'They must have something in common, or they would not be called ‘games’' but look and see whether there is anything common to all. For if you look at them, you won’t see something that is common to all, but similarities, affinities, and a whole series of them at that. To repeat: don’t think, but look!
Ludwig Wittgenstein
-
You run into a party and a woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw — Ava Gardner — and says, 'I like you and why don't we get together?' What are you going to say, 'No'? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.
Artie Shaw
-
We could talk, act, and dress funny. We were excused for socially inappropriate behavior: 'Oh, he's a programmer'. It was all because we knew this technology stuff that other people found completely mystifying.
Kent Beck
-
Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and every once in a while there's some juicy little tidbit of reward, like the three quarters that pop down on a one-armed bandit. And that keeps you coming back for more.
Douglas Rushkoff
-
Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
Johann Georg Hamann
-
Surely it's better to live in the country, to live on a prairie by a drawing of rivers, in Iowa or Illinois or Indiana, say, than in any city, in any stinking fog of human beings, in any blooming orchard of machines. It ought to be.
William H. Gass
-
The only way an Iraqi biological agent would kill you is if it landed on your head.
Scott Ritter
-
Love me or hate me, I always speak the truth.
Caroline Manzo
-
Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.
Dante Alighieri