Antonio Porchia Quotes

Si no creyera que el sol me mira un poco, no lo miraría.

Antonio Porchia

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• Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Nature
  • Perfect
  • Value

• Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Different
  • Identity
  • Stand

• Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Think
  • Faith
  • Here

• The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Fun
  • Way
  • Me

• We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • May
  • Judges
  • Constitutional

• One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Army
  • Being

• Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Time
  • Nothing
  • More

• Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Parents
  • Struggle
  • Cost

• If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Look
  • Talking
  • Tenderness

• Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

  

  Manfred Eigen
  • Sometimes
  • Better
  • Thesis

• When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Thought
  • See
  • Now

• If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Done

• Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • She
  • Wife
  • New

• For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Law
  • New York
  • Forward

• No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Parents
  • Body
  • Same

• I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status - all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Desire
  • Car
  • Drama

• I have come to rely on Ed Welch and others at CCEF for guidance and insight in better understanding the issues of the soul that plague many people today. For those who want to address more than just the symptoms of depression, Ed's counsel is invaluable.

  

  Bob Lepine
  • Soul
  • Depression
  • Issues

• When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Book
  • Father

• The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Obligation

• The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a reciprocal influence, each moderating what is too excessive and therefore unlikely to live in the other, creating a being apart who easily arrives at domination, for nothing can stop such a man...It is the eternal opposition of Shylock and Jessica. It is the illogical and monstrous mixture of the rarest qualities with the most abject defects, mixture of irresistible force and of irremediable weakness.

  

  Kadmi Cohen
  • Men
  • Perfect
  • Quality

• Our firefighters, they show up every day to fight fires. If, God forbid, there's a situation where they have to fight cancer, they shouldn't have to fight bureaucrats to get the care they deserve.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • God
  • Cancer
  • Firefighters

• Si no creyera que el sol me mira un poco, no lo miraría.

  

  Antonio Porchia