Antonio Spinelli Quotes

Antonio straightened like a shot, straddling me. He took my hands from my face and filled my vision. The eye of the storm: a place of peace and calm, and the most dangerous space to be in. The eye made you complacent and comfortable, and the next minute, while you were enjoying the cloudless sky, you'd be swept into a violent wind. ~ C.D. Reiss

There is no world without you in it. Nothing. I'm not talking about despair. I've lost people. This isn't me being a child. There is one universe. Just one. And it's between us. If you destroy that universe, you destroy me. Do you understand what I'm saying? ~ C.D. Reiss

She wanted defiance in her face, and I wanted to wipe it away with a fuck so hard we'd both break. ~ C.D. Reiss

Of course, no rocks in Los Angeles. You had to buy fucking rocks. Sick place, this, where you couldn't find a rock to break a window. ~ C.D. Reiss

Don't put me in a position where I have to defend myself against this again. ~ C.D. Reiss

I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life. ~ Antonio Banderas

I consider myself a Christian - a true believer in Jesus Christ - that He died for our sins. ~ Antonio Sabato, Jr.

You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which may be your own. ~ Antonio Porchia

When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer. ~ Antonio Damasio

Adults are corrupted. That's why young people are so important. You can still shape them, improve them. ~ Antonio Iturbe

Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles. ~ Juan Antonio Samaranch

I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies. ~ Antonio Porchia

I hate the indifferent. I believe that living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a partisan. Indifference and apathy are parasitism, perversion, not life. That is why I hate the indifferent.

The indifference is the deadweight of history. The indifference operates with great power on history. The indifference operates passively, but it operates. It is fate, that which cannot be counted on. It twists programs and ruins the best-conceived plans. It is the raw material that ruins intelligence. That what happens, the evil that weighs upon all, happens because the human mass abdicates to their will; allows laws to be promulgated that only the revolt could nullify, and leaves men that only a mutiny will be able to overthrow to achieve the power. The mass ignores because it is careless and then it seems like it is the product of fate that runs over everything and everyone: the one who consents as well as the one who dissents; the one who knew as well as the one who didn't know; the active as well as the indifferent. Some whimper piously, others curse obscenely, but nobody, or very few ask themselves: If I had tried to impose my will, would this have happened?

I also hate the indifferent because of that: because their whimpering of eternally innocent ones annoys me. I make each one liable: how they have tackled with the task that life has given and gives them every day, what have they done, and especially, what they have not ~ Antonio Gramsci

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture. ~ Antonio Tabucchi

State is the nation socially organized. ~ Antonio De Oliveira Salazar

The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself'as a product of the historical processes to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory. ~ Antonio Gramsci

GONZALO: I' the commonwealth I would by contraries
Execute all things; for no kind of traffic
Would I admit; no name of magistrate;
Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,
And use of service, none; contract, succession,
Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;
No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;
No occupation; all men idle, all;
And women too, but innocent and pure;
And no sovereignty; -
SEBASTIAN: Yet he would be king on't.
ANTONIO: The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the beginning. ~ William Shakespeare

Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?'
No,' I said.
People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord Fauntleroys or cowboys, clowns, ballerinas. As if it's not enough just to be a dog or cat or turtle. ~ Jerry Spinelli

Study hard ... so that you can be someone in this life. ~ Antonio Olinto

You have to do what you have to do. I wanted to work. I wanted to prove that I was worthy of being here ... and I was gonna do whatever it took to prove that. ~ Jose Antonio Vargas

I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived. ~ Antonio Porchia

She turned left when everyone else turned right. ~ Jerry Spinelli

I never became a cowboy or baseball player, and now I'm beginning to wonder if I ever really became a writer. I find that I hesitate to put that label on myself, to define myself by what I do for a living. ~ Jerry Spinelli

As a writer, I've always been interested in others. ~ Antonio Tabucchi

Humanity is not some box I should have to check. ~ Jose Antonio Vargas

He (Antonio Machado) was old, weary and ill, and he no longer believed in Franco's defeat. He wrote 'This is the end; any day now Barcelona will fall. For the strategists, for the politicians, for the historians, it is all clear: we have lost the war. But in human terms, I am not so sure. Perhaps we have won. ~ Javier Cercas

In 2007, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would become a 'platform,' meaning that outside developers could start creating applications that would run inside the site. It worked. ~ Jose Antonio Vargas

I think I'm a romantic person, yeah. ~ Antonio Banderas

History sits on our shoulders, while reading opens our hearts. ~ Jerry Spinelli

Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true. ~ Antonio Machado

Many things, In order to assure me their lack of existence; become mine ~ Antonio Porchia

Out of all the creatures that roam the earth man is the only one that managed to enslave itself. ~ Antonio Kowatsch

In 'Hokey Pokey,' bikes are kind of more than bikes alone. They become mustangs; they become creatures that rip up the dust as they gallop across the Great Plains. ~ Jerry Spinelli

You had to be tough in our neighborhood. ~ Antonio Gates

Self-pity NEVER leads to happiness. Avoid it like it's a zombie plague. ~ Ace Antonio Hall

My retelling of events to Zoe is what grounds them, shapes them, makes them real. If I can't tell Zoe about kissing Danny Spinelli, it didn't happen. ~ Wendy Wunder

We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all. ~ Antonio Porchia

I'm Sorry are two of the most powerful words in our language, especially when they are not flipped blithely over the shoulder but spoken from the heart. They help restore order, balance, harmony. They reduce pain. They heal broken friendship. If they were medecine, they'd be called a miracle. ~ Jerry Spinelli

Tickling is one of the most wonderful forms of erotic, pleasurable, and satisfying FUN that two consenting Lovers can enjoy. ~ Antonio Tony D'Assisto

I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids. ~ Antonio Banderas