Dante Alighieri Quotes

And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

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• You can tell someone who doesn't have love in their life, then someone who is in love.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Life
  • Liking Someone

• There are aspects of human life that are not purely destructive, and there is a need to pay attention to the things around us while they are still around us. And you know, in a way, if you don't pay that attention, the anger is just bitterness.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Aspects

• All my gowns have trains on them. I make a train that goes on forever. I love long trains and then I stand there and twirl around and wrap myself up in it.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Up
  • Long
  • Forever

• An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Ornament
  • Served
  • Oratory

• While the company has acknowledged allowing some improper market timing, the full extent of the problem at Seligman has not been disclosed to investors.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Company
  • Market
  • Acknowledge

• Presidential campaigns are exhausting. Once they're over, we all heave a sigh of relief that we have our lives back, the constant emails and news reports no longer harangue us, and the topic even turns at times to something else entirely.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Presidential
  • Campaigns
  • Reports

• If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, thatit is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Life
  • Real
  • Mistake

• Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place

  

  William McDonough
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• I want to headbang… and head banging requires following a steady meter.

  

  Jay Weinberg Against Me!
  • Head
  • Banging

• People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • People
  • Band
  • Need

• The natural state of mammals is to be somewhat on guard. However, in order to feel emotionally close to another human being, our defensive system must temporarily shut down. In order to play, mate, and nurture our young, the brain needs to turn off its natural vigilance . . . Many traumatized individuals are too hypervigilant to enjoy the ordinary pleasures that life has to offer, while others are too numb to absorb new experiences — or to be alert to signs of real danger . . . Many people feel safe as long as they can limit their social contact to superficial conversations, but actual physical contact can trigger intense reactions. However … achieving any sort of deep intimacy — a close embrace, sleeping with a mate, and sex — requires allowing oneself to experience immobilization without fear. It is especially challenging for traumatized people to discern when they are actually safe and to be able to activate their defenses when they are in danger. This requires having experiences that can restore the sense of physical safety.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Experiences
  • Safe
  • Human being

• If I have to, I will. I'll do whatever the law (requires) me to do, but other than that, it's a waste of my time.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Time
  • Law
  • Requires

• I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Want
  • Garden
  • I Can

• I can't pinpoint a period in history or a place in the universe where religion has actually helped the welfare of man.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • History
  • Universe
  • Period

• And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Breath
  • Escaped
  • Gazes