Antonio Porchia Quotes

La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.

Antonio Porchia

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• Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Me
  • Nervous
  • Mouth

• Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Society
  • Fall
  • Crime

• Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Want
  • Sports
  • Discrimination

• It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • True
  • Romantic
  • Pleasure

• I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • You
  • Stop
  • Working

• The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Bird
  • Wings

• The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Language
  • View
  • Philosophical

• I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Important
  • Words
  • Prejudice

• I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Strong
  • Myself
  • Green

• Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Time
  • God
  • May

• I'm from L.A., but everyone thinks that I'm British.

  

  Banks
  • Everyone
  • British
  • Thinks

• Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • Women
  • Children
  • Family

• We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Peace
  • Leadership

• All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Action
  • Speak
  • Twilight

• We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Walk

• If you're comfortable with yourself, then you'll look beautiful. If you're not feeling comfortable with yourself, than that kind of shows. I think that as cheesy as the pageant industry can be seen at times, it actually does help women - boosting their confidence and growing into their own. I have to give it credit for that.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Women
  • Help
  • Beautiful

• In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • America
  • High
  • Today

• Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

  

  Hale White
  • Myself
  • Worry
  • Virtue

• You always hear about the disempowered actor, their fate in other people's hands. It's just really wonderful to experience it the other way around.

  

  Elizabeth Marvel
  • People
  • Experience
  • Fate

• When I grew up in the Bronx, we always had everyone telling us, 'Watch out for the system, watch out for child welfare, watch out, they'll get you,' and I grew up with this feeling of, 'Society is over there and they're dangerous and not safe.'

  

  Liz Murray
  • Up
  • Society
  • Feeling

• You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes.

  

  Andreas Schleicher
  • Money
  • Education
  • Quality

• The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Reality
  • Air
  • Human

• The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.

  

  Walter Brueggemann
  • Gospel
  • Judged
  • Empire

• La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.

  

  Antonio Porchia