Arcangela Tarabotti Quotes

Men see to satisfy their every craving and show by their deeds that they believe that after death there is no pleasure and that the Lord does not see them.

Arcangela Tarabotti

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• Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Experience
  • American
  • Alien

• Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Day
  • Rest

• The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Animal
  • Dog

• My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Trying
  • Look
  • Golf

• The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Movies

• I love big summer dresses, and it sucks because I'm such a little person, so I always have to be very specific about which ones I put on.

  

  Becky G
  • Love
  • Person
  • Summer

• A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Life
  • True
  • Beautiful

• 'Free competition enforced by law' is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Free
  • Law
  • Competition

• He never went very far astray in his official business, because he always obeyed the clerks and followed precedents.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Business

• Let's dispel this fiction once and for all that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing; he's undergoing a systematic effort to change this country and make America more like the rest of the world. If I'm elected we'll embrace what makes America the greatest country in the world.

  

  Marco Rubio
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

  

  Aristotle
  • Poetry
  • Purposes
  • Convincing

• Si no creyera que el sol me mira un poco, no lo miraría.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.

  

  Lewis Black
  • Great
  • Swimming

• Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

  

  Brooks Stevens

• Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I'm traveling, I lose energy and I can't do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I'm not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it's necessary.

  

  Bjork
  • Energy

• In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.

  

  Alice Waters
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.

  

  Shakira
  • Team
  • Respect

• Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.

  

  Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • Time
  • Important
  • Singing

• When I was a little girl, my dad always said to me that I was going to be this great businesswoman, that I was going to be the CEO of IBM. So that's what I came into the world thinking, that I was going to go into the business world and make my mark there.

  

  Pramila Jayapal
  • World
  • Great
  • Thinking

• What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• I was never part of that cliquey girl drama. Most of my friends were guys growing up, so I was never part of that whole toxic energy. It seemed like way too much hassle.

  

  Aimee Teegarden
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Girl

• I believe you should place a woman on a pedestal: high enough so you can look up her dress.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Believe
  • Funny
  • Looks

• By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • May
  • Death

• Men see to satisfy their every craving and show by their deeds that they believe that after death there is no pleasure and that the Lord does not see them.

  

  Arcangela Tarabotti
  • Death
  • Deeds
  • Satisfy