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Quotes by Italian Authors
"God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle."
"It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes."
"If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way."
"And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight."
"God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter."
"The seventh reader interrupts you: 'Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could only end in two ways: having passed all the tests, the hero and heroine married, or else they died. The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.'You stop for a moment to reflect on these words. Then, in a flash, you decide you want to marry Ludmilla."
"I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions."
"I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy."
"And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different cultural experiences, speaking different languages, but working together for a common goal."
"The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand."
"History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community."
"I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants."
"War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it."
"We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either."
"We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers."
"I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born."
"Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working."
"I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like."
"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do."
"Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love."
"By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments."
"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 never in crisis because clothes are always necessary."
"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography."
"The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice."
"I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had held previous experience in that particular satellite. So, I was in that, in a good position then."
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