Pietro Ferrero Quotes

The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower. ~ Pietro Metastasio

[...] no other person on earth could feel such love. Pietro Crespi then saw the lights go on in every window in town except that of Amaranta. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Sergeant Pietro Oliva was a good Catholic. He liked to go into a church and cross himself, genuflect to the alter, and then settle down to a little prayer and contemplation, savouring the coolness, the heavy odours, the darkness, and the sensation of being soaked in the atmosphere of centuries' worth of devotion that hung in the tenebrous and golden air of churches. ~ Louis De Bernieres

Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice. ~ Pietro Metastasio

I am curious to see what happens in the next world to one who dies unshriven. ~ Pietro Perugino

With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy. ~ Pietro Aretino

There are no perfect answers. The earnest search is all we can expect. ~ Pietro Belluschi

Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them. ~ Larry Niven

You are me. And I cherish you. ~ Pietro De La Luna

He who wishes to preserve, often destroys, so that virtue seems vice, and vice seems virtue. ~ Guglielmo Ferrero

Radical trust is required of you. ~ Pietro De La Luna

Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most? ~ Pietro Aretino

You should leave your wife more time." "She has all day available." "I'm not kidding. If you don't, you're guilty not only on a human level but also on a political one." "What's the crime?" "The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women's intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn't realize it." I waited in silence for Pietro to respond. My husband reacted with sarcasm. "Elena can cultivate her intelligence when and how she likes, the essential thing is that she not take time from me." "If she doesn't take it from you, then who can she take it from?" Pietro frowned. "When the task we give ourselves has the urgency of passion, there's nothing that can keep us from completing it." I felt wounded, I whispered with a false smile: "My husband is saying that I have no true interest. ~ Elena Ferrante

It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it comes it is an alleviation to mortals who are worn out with sufferings. ~ Pietro Metastasio

You Are All The Ones You Have Been Waiting For ~ Pietro De La Luna

Of all faults the greatest is the excess of impious terror, dishonoring divine grace. He who despairs wants love, wants faith; for faith, hope, and love are three torches which blend their light together, nor does the one shine without the other. ~ Pietro Metastasio

If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity? ~ Pietro Metastasio

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. ~ Pietro Aretino

Though he was scared even to look up, much less down, he raised his hands and caught the side of the gondola. With a stream of curse words known principally to the fourth class of the Accademia San Pietro in Rome, he pulled himself back. ~ Mark Helprin

The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle. ~ Pietro Mascagni

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. ~ Pietro Aretino

If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now? ~ Pietro Metastasio

Though the Indian ocean abounds in rich and rare gems, it does not boast a clearer sky nor more unruffled sea. If there be a shore that dreads not the fury of the faithless billows, it is some poor and narrow inlet unknown to the winds. ~ Pietro Metastasio

In Positano, I like the San Pietro Hotel, which is run by a friend whose family has owned the hotel for more than 100 years. ~ Ivana Trump

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. ~ Pietro Aretino

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment. ~ Pietro Aretino

We are the buffoons of our children. ~ Pietro Aretino

Each of you resides in my heart, as i do in yours, for there is in truth only one heart. You are me. And i cherish you. ~ Pietro De La Luna

The eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness. ~ Pietro Metastasio

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. ~ Pietro Aretino

Around the time they were preparing Jose Arcadio for the seminary she had already made a detailed recapitulation of life in the house since the founding of Macondo and had completely changed the opinion that she had always had of its descendants. She realized that Colonel Aureliano Buendia had not lost his love for the family because he had been hardened by the war, as she had thought before, but that he had never loved anyone... Amaranta, however, whose hardness of heart frightened her, whose concentrated bitterness made her bitter, suddenly became clear to her in the final analysis as the most tender woman who had ever existed, and she understood with pitying clarity that the unjust tortures to which she had submitted Pietro Crespi had not been dictated by a desire for vengeance, as everyone had thought, nor had the slow martyrdom with which she had frustrated the life of Colonel Gerineldo Marquez been determined by the gall of her bitterness, as everyone had thought, but that both actions had been a mortal struggle between a measureless love and an invincible cowardice, and that the irrational fear that Amaranta had always had of her own tormented heart had triumphed in the end. It was during that time that Ursula began to speak Rebeca's name, bringing back the memory of her with an old love that was exalted by tardy repentance and a sudden admiration, coming to understand that only she, Rebeca , the one who had never fed of her milk but only of the earth of the land and t ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell. ~ Pietro Aretino

Always do something different from the others. ~ Michele Ferrero

Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap. ~ Pietro Aretino

Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing. ~ Pietro Aretino

Sharp and fell remorse, the offspring of my sin! Why do you, O God, lacerate my heart so late? Why, O boding cries, that scream so close to me,
why do I listen to you now, and never heard you before? ~ Pietro Metastasio

Age has a good mind and sorry shanks. ~ Pietro Aretino

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other. ~ Pietro Metastasio

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! ~ Pietro Aretino

Antonia: I meant to tell you, and then forgot: call a spade a spade, and say 'arse', 'prick', 'cunt', and 'fuck', otherwise the only people who'll understand you will be the scholars of the Capranica think tank - you and your 'rose in the ring', your 'obelisk in the arsenal' your 'leek in the garden', your 'bolt in the door', your 'key in the lock', your 'pestle in the mortar', your 'nightingale in the nest', your 'sapling in the ditch', your 'syringe in the flap-valve', your 'sword in the sheath'; and the same goes for 'the stake', 'the crozier', the parsnip', 'the little monkey', 'his thingummy', 'her thingummy', 'the apples', 'the leaves of the mass book', 'that thingy', 'the graceful whatyamacallit', 'that whatsit', 'that doings', 'that latest news', 'the handle', 'the dart', 'that carrot', 'the root' and all the other shit that comes out of your mouth, but there you go, pussyfooting around. Let your yes mean yes, your no, no, and otherwise, just shut it. ~ Pietro Aretino

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things. ~ Pietro Aretino