Arcangela Tarabotti Quotes
God did not grant one and the same will, one and the same desire, one and the same motivation to each and every woman… He takes pleasure in creation’s variety
Quotes to Explore
-
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
-
I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.
-
I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
-
If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.
-
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
-
I went through a phase where I loved tattoos, and I loved the feeling of getting tattooed.
-
What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.
-
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
-
There is a supply for every demand.
-
I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
-
The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
-
From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
-
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
-
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
-
Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.
-
I definitely love record stores. And worked in many over the years. Having said that, it's not necessarily that I love vinyl per se. I mean, I'm happy to use CDs and MP3s: to me, it's the music that's top priority. I do have a good collection of vinyl, but I rarely actually pull it out.
-
For me, writing is a love – hate relationship.
-
I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.
-
Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
-
I will know him by his eyes.
-
It's so damn hard to bloom… to change. Even when you want to change, want it more than anything in the world, it's hard. Desire to change isn't enough. Or desperation. Couldn't be done without… love.
-
If a powerful and benevolent spirit has shaped the destiny of this world, we can better discover that destiny from the words that have gathered up the heart's desire of the world, than from historical records, or from speculation, wherein the heart withers.
-
The evidence is clear: brooding is the problem, not the solution.
-
God did not grant one and the same will, one and the same desire, one and the same motivation to each and every woman… He takes pleasure in creation’s variety
