Donna Leon Quotes
Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.Donna Leon
Quotes to Explore
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
Wendell Berry -
When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
Harlan Ellison -
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
Randy Neugebauer -
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason -
Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
Malcolm Forbes -
To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu -
Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
Salman Rushdie -
Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
Cameron Russell -
I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
Sam Smith -
I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
Jack Nicklaus -
I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
Edgar Winter
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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
Lance Morrow -
When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
Tahmoh Penikett -
The imagination is man's power over nature.
Wallace Stevens -
Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
Kate Christensen -
People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
Samantha Morton -
You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
AJ McLean
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The people in Dominica and the small communities where I were had no idea who I was, and there's no better security than that.
James Douglas -
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.
James Henry Breasted -
You're going to be hearing a lot about one scrappy president.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva -
I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist. And they tell me that if I wanted to devote my life to learning what they've learned, I'd find quarks and God just like they did.
Mary Doria Russell -
I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
Oriana Fallaci -
Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.
Donna Leon