Alberto Moravia Quotes

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

Alberto Moravia

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• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Well
  • Lifestyle
  • Urban

• I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Time
  • Family
  • Kids

• A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Plan
  • Push

• I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.

  

  T. S. Kalyanaraman
  • Play
  • Honesty
  • Stand

• I love baseball, and the door remains open.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Love
  • Baseball
  • Door

• Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Know

• I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

  

  Dana Hill
  • School
  • Kids
  • Today

• I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so much that when I was 13, I changed my name to Harmful. I thought it was a tougher name, so I had it legally changed. And then, I don't know, it just didn't seem to catch on, so... legally, my name is still Harmful, but I just said I'll go back to Harmony.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Thought
  • Weird
  • Name

• I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Try

• The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Look

• There is something so fun about scaring yourself.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Something

• Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Man

• You might not trust me. Please give me a chance and time. I will prove myself for all of you.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Trust

• When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Mind

• I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Technology
  • Missing

• People want to think that staying in shape costs a lot of money. They couldn't be more wrong. It doesn't cost anything to walk. And it's probably a lot cheaper to go to the corner store and buy vegetables than take a family out for fast food.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • People
  • Family
  • Money

• I don't believe we're the party of big business.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Party

• Life is never going to be perfect, as much as we want it to be, and I have to lead by example.

  

  Patsy Kensit
  • Life
  • Perfect

• Living the dream is simply a form of living out your passion, of making that passion gradually, through persistence and effort, a central part of your life.

  

  Urijah Christopher Faber
  • Life
  • Art
  • Dream

• The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.

  

  Aristotle
  • Truth
  • Desire
  • Virtue

• And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.

  

  George Pataki
  • Democracy

• Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

  

  Alberto Moravia
  • Democracy
  • Traffic
  • Dictatorships