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Quotes by Italian Authors
"All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today."
"There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience."
"It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master."
"For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination."
"The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people."
"In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs."
"All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks."
"Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much."
"I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science."
"At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay."
"Beauty is boring because it is predictable."
"I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants."
"Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings."
"Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides."
"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."
"Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future."
"Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long."
"Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations."
"You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation."
"When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself."
"Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy."
"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."
"Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is."
"One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others."
"Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues."
"Russia knows of the vulnerability of her frontiers in this part of the world."
"I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born."
"Then Christ shall be clothed with all the beauty of the elect as if with a long tunic variously adorned, in which He shall shine as if covered with all manner of precious stones."
"Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me."
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