Antonio Porchia Quotes

When I have ceased to exist, I won’t ever have existed.

Antonio Porchia

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• The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Government

• The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Society
  • Balanced
  • Must

• I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Life
  • Music
  • Writing

• All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Road
  • Courage
  • inspirational

• Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.

  

  Garth Nix
  • People
  • Love
  • Job

• For me, what's crazy is CRM has really evolved, and keeps evolving.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Me
  • Crazy
  • Really

• Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.

  

  Adam Grant
  • May
  • Creativity
  • Easy

• You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Fear
  • Best
  • Failure

• Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

  

  Larry King
  • World
  • Good
  • Business

• If the Reddit community cannot learn to balance authenticity and compassion, it may be a great website, but it will never be a truly great community.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Great
  • May
  • Community

• Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Power
  • Remember
  • Forget

• We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Myself
  • Couple
  • Person

• The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • God
  • Long

• We think of the division of labor as being outdated, but in fact it has reemerged. In the early ‘80s, a mother was 43 times more likely than the father to leave the workplace for family responsibilities; more recently, a mom is 135 times more likely to leave the workplace for family responsibilities.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• …English translation of the Koran. I wonder how, with such a repetitive farrago of platitudes, expressing so self-evident a theology and an ethic so puerile, Islam can have spread as it has.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Wonder

• Concentration is the ROOT of all the higher abilities in man.

  

  Bruce Lee

• I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Great
  • She
  • Job

• Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Reading

• I shut my eyes, and I force myself to feel myself. You never really think of what it’s like to be in your body, but even with my eyes shut, I can feel the boundaries of my skin, real or not. Everything that’s me is contained inside this body, and I feel it all. The heartbeat I cannot control. The mind that may not be mine. I am here, in this moment, in this body. All that I am—maybe not all that I ever was, but all that I currently am—is right here.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Control
  • Force
  • Boundaries

• If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Purpose

• I am protecting my personal life because for me, that's my sanctity. When I am done with shooting and home, that's my reality check.

  

  Varun Dhawan
  • Life
  • Done
  • Home

• Usher and Shakira are so humble and easy to get along with.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Humble

• There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both.

  

  Harry Lloyd
  • British actors
  • Film Stars
  • Theatre actors

• When I have ceased to exist, I won’t ever have existed.

  

  Antonio Porchia