Cesare Pavese Quotes

Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.

Cesare Pavese

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• It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Know
  • Forgive
  • Everybody

• The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • High
  • Day

• Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Stronger
  • Israel
  • Curse

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Light
  • Day

• When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • You
  • See

• Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

  

  Vance Havner
  • People
  • God
  • Medicine

• I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Sick

• If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Why
  • Sports
  • Matter

• If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.

  

  Ed Townsend
  • Learn
  • Going
  • Others

• I have three lovely, lovely kids that I am in love with and that's in love with me.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Lovely

• If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Real
  • Job
  • Serious

• I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Writing
  • Show
  • Participate

• I don't look like that and I don't desire to look like that.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Desire

• Drifting in and out, you see the road you’re onIt came rolling down the cheekSay just what you need in between, it’s never as it seems

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Road

• Sparrow: Listen, Mo. I have been doing crisis intervention with battered, homeless women and kids all week long. Tonight, I am going to vegetate in front of the TV. If you're so worried about Bosnia, go join the Red Cross.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Long
  • Women
  • Kids

• Ah, Scotland. I am three-parts Scottish and terribly proud of it, although maybe we should divide it into eighths, because my two-eighths are Danish and English, the Lumley part. But the bulk of the rest of me is Scottish - and Scottish ministers especially.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Proud
  • Rest
  • English

• I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little 'Time After Time'. I can do a little 'Grease Lightning'. It depends on the mood, but we do go karaoke, my friends and I in Los Angeles, and it's a lot of fun.

  

  Kristen Bell
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Fun

• I've lived in Los Angeles for over 70 years.

  

  Jerry Perenchio

• I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Wonder
  • motivation
  • I Wonder

• I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

  

  Beth Gibbons Portishead
  • Life
  • Death
  • Picture

• Moreover, there is this harm too, and one of vast extent, and touching men generally, that by insincerity and lying faith and truth are lost, which are the firmest bonds of human society, and, when they are lost, supreme confusion follows in life, so that men seem in nothing to differ from devils.

  

  John Henry Newman
  • Life
  • Men
  • Truth

• Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Men
  • Death
  • Point