Antonio Porchia Quotes

La pena humana, durmiendo, no tiene forma. Si la despiertan, toma la forma de quien la despierta,

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• Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

  

  Quintus Tullius Cicero
  • Meetings
  • Public Policy

• In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • True
  • Community
  • End

• You cannot underestimate the impact the Internet has had on British fashion.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Fashion
  • Internet
  • Impact

• I think the reason why people have trouble fighting me is because I don't come from a specific background, and they can't prepare to fight me. I come in, and I push the pace, and I think that pushes a lot of people off their game, as much as I push the pace through the whole fight.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Why
  • Game

• I am not a home breaker and I can never be. I haven't been brought up to create havoc in other people's homes.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • People
  • Home
  • Havoc

• I have to have coffee in the morning.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Morning
  • Coffee

• On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Earth
  • Peace
  • Trust

• Secrecy as deep as this is past possibility without nonexistence as well.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Past
  • Deep

• 'Bapu Gandhi said, 'All religions are true.' I just want to love God,' I blurted out, and looked down, red in the face.

  

  Yann Martel
  • God
  • True
  • Red

• Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.

  

  Cormac McCarthy

• On 'Heaven Beside You'. **Interview with Request Magazine, February 1996.

  

  Jerry Cantrell
  • Heaven
  • February

• If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Life
  • Society
  • Freedom

• I'm not the person who looks back or looks forward. I try to live in what is now.

  

  Agnetha Fältskog
  • Live

• Il ne savait rien, ne voulait rien savoir, en quoi il se conformait à son génie, dont il ne surchargeait point l’aimable petitesse, et son heureux instinct lui conseillait de comprendre peu plutôt que de comprendre mal.

  

  Anatole France
  • Son

• I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him.

  

  Rickie Lee Skaggs
  • Good
  • Music
  • Listening

• O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Good
  • God
  • Help

• My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Believe
  • Religious

• A Korean reporter once asked me, 'Do you think your Korean parents are ashamed because you talk about what you talk about on stage?' I said, 'I don't think they're ashamed because they're Korean. I think any parents would be ashamed.'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Parents

• La pena humana, durmiendo, no tiene forma. Si la despiertan, toma la forma de quien la despierta,

  

  Antonio Porchia