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Quotes by Italian Authors
"The Council of Islamic Affairs is doing a great service to the world by promoting a greater understanding in America of the rich heritage of the Islamic peoples and their hopes and aspirations for the future."
"How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know."
"A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example."
"Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies."
"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World."
"Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America."
"It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument."
"The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period."
"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."
"Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace."
"Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance."
"An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment."
"Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare."
"I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like."
"Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood."
"Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason."
"I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me."
"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder."
"Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while."
"War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace."
"Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person."
"When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film."
"Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?"
"We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century."
"The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man."
"There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience."
"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography."
"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."
"It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!"
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