Cesare Pavese Quotes
When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.
Cesare Pavese
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
Ted Turner
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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
Rachel Cusk
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Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.
Aaron Neville
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
E. M. Forster
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
Dana Perino
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Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
Randy Bachman
The Guess Who
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As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent. of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had the remotest interest in the institution. No other proof, however, is needed than the undeniable fact that at any period of the war from its beginning to near its close the South could have saved slavery by simply laying down its arms and returning to the Union.
John Brown Gordon
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Otto von Bismarck
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By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be represented as a bête noire, the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English!
Albert Einstein
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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.
Baruch Spinoza
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Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong.... Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense.
John Ralston Saul
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When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.
Cesare Pavese
