Antonio Porchia Quotes

A veces creo el mal es todo y que el bien es sólo un bello deseo del mal.

Antonio Porchia

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• Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Love
  • Reading
  • Powerful

• I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • World
  • American
  • First

• By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Home
  • Illness
  • Cure

• I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Work
  • Believe

• 'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.

  

  P. J. Soles
  • Real
  • Done
  • Movie

• I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • You
  • Afraid
  • Scared

• I still love radio, but TV is also an awesome platform.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Awesome
  • Radio
  • Platform

• The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Life
  • Up
  • May

• Donald Trump has done a lot of horrible things on Twitter. From emboldening white supremacists to promoting violence against journalists, his tweets damage the country and put people in harm's way.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • Country
  • Done

• I think music naturally wants to be played with more than one person. There's a surprise element, and you don't know what it will be, and it's up to that other person's energy to help create this third thing.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Music
  • Help

• The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Forever
  • Flower
  • Once

• I feel very honoured and humbled to have people think, 'If Yuna can break through, then why can't we?' It takes a lot of work, but I tell people to just have that focus. Always be humble and a learner, practice and do research.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

  

  Sally Ride
  • You
  • Space
  • Waiting

• I'm proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I've also worked hard to establish myself as a successful businessman, network broadcaster, sports & entertainment executive and philanthropist.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Proud
  • Myself
  • Football

• After my first 'Sports Illustrated' cover, I felt terrible about myself for a solid month. People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. I'm not a toy; I'm a human. I'm not here to be used.

  

  Kate Upton
  • People
  • Children
  • Myself

• We make songs like a factory and put them out.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Like
  • Out
  • Factory

• Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman

• When you say, 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say, 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People
  • Free

• Is all our Life, then, but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?Bowed to the earth with bitter woe Or laughing at some raree-show We flutter idly to and fro.Man's little Day in haste we spend, And, from its merry noontide, send No glance to meet the silent end.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Life
  • Time
  • Dream

• People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • Time
  • Society

• My records don't go platinum or gold. I think they go cedar.

  

  Dave Sitek Jane's Addiction
  • Gold

• The cross stands as the final symbol that no evil exists that God cannot turn into a blessing. He is the living Alchemist who can take the dregs from the slag-heaps of life - disappointment, frustration, sorrow, disease, death, economic loss, heartache - and transform the dregs into gold.

  

  Catherine Marshall
  • Evil
  • Blessing
  • Loss

• A veces creo el mal es todo y que el bien es sólo un bello deseo del mal.

  

  Antonio Porchia