Antonio Porchia Quotes

Quien me tiene de un hilo no es fuerte; lo fuerte es el hilo.

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• I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • School
  • Day
  • Sick

• There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.

  

  Sam Reed
  • People
  • Think
  • Party

• 'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Giving

• I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Time
  • Why
  • Fun

• When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Work
  • Book
  • Lost

• Politics is a people business. I like people.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Business
  • Politics

• We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Himself
  • Tone

• Through the 'It's About Ability' campaign and with parents and other members of society, we have created a social family for children with disabilities.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Children
  • Family
  • Parents

• I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Work
  • Me
  • Things

• Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • People
  • Live
  • Simple

• Finally there was a moment when it just hit me. John wouldn't want me to sit on my butt for the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself or sorry for him. As cheesy as it sounds, he would have wanted us to go on.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Universe

• I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Ignorance
  • Natural
  • Gone

• Should you be a teenager blessed with uncommon good looks, document this state of affairs by the taking of photographs. It is the only way anyone will ever believe you in years to come.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Blessed

• In Ted's world, we want the death penalty to be imposed at the scene of the crime.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • World
  • Death

• A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Practice

• To lead a better life, I need my love to be here. Here, making each day of the year, Changing my life with a wave of her hand. Nobody can deny that there's something there.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Life
  • Hand

• Soundlessly, shadow with shadow, we wrestled together,Till the grey dawn.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Together
  • Shadow

• My parents taught me to react quickly when temptation comes and to say 'No!' instantly and emphatically. I recommend that same counsel to you. Avoid temptations.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Parents
  • Temptation

• The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Christian
  • Practice
  • Bible

• The most important thing that I did was to actually take the time to sit down every month and do a review of what I spent and look at it objectively.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Time
  • Important

• I want my kids to be in an environment where they can talk about values in a way that you can't always do in a public school setting.

  

  Kerry Healey
  • School
  • Kids
  • Environment

• There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and then I see Annabel in such general terms as: "honey-colored skin," "thin arms," "brown bobbed hair," "long lashes," "big bright mouth"); and the other when you instantly evoke, with shut eyes, on the dark innerside of your eyelids, the objective, absolutely optical replica of a beloved face, a little ghost in natural colors (and this is how I see Lolita).

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Long
  • Kind
  • Eye

• Quien me tiene de un hilo no es fuerte; lo fuerte es el hilo.

  

  Antonio Porchia