Ven Carlo Acutis Quotes

Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long. ~ Carlo Collodi

Straight-faced, Hamon said, "I'm honored to be working alongside someone with such expert woodland knowledge, superior battle skills, and an impressive beard."
Ven stroked his beard. "Indeed you are. ~ Sarah Beth Durst

Orsini and one of his fellow conspirators were guillotined, and an accomplice called Carlo di Rudio was transported to Devil's Island, the notorious French prison camp in French Guiana. He escaped and later fought alongside General Custer at Little Big Horn. True to form, he survived. ~ Stephen Clarke

Space is a spin network whose nodes represent its elementary grains, and whose links describe their proximity relations. Spacetime ~ Carlo Rovelli

In the awareness that we can always be wrong, and therefore ready at any moment to change direction if a new track appears; but knowing also that if we are good enough we will get it right and will find what we are seeking. This is the nature of science. The ~ Carlo Rovelli

Remember the past and work for the future...
But never forget to live today! ~ Carlo Jose San Juan

Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything. ~ Carlo Collodi

Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same. That is one of their innermost Freudian motivations. In fact, that is what we mean by understanding. ~ Gian-Carlo Rota

Carlo is safe because I don't really love him that much. If he stopped wanting me around one day, it wouldn't be so terrible. I wouldn't die.
Hallie, I realize how that sounds. I feel small and ridiculous and hemmed in on every side by the need to be safe. All I want is to be like you, to walk into a country of chickens and land mines and call that home, and have it be home. How do you just charge ahead, always doing the right thing, even if you have to do it alone with people staring? ~ Barbara Kingsolver

To trust immediate intuitions rather than collective examination that is rational, careful, and intelligent is not wisdom: it is the presumption of an old man who refuses to believe that the great world outside his village is any different from the one that he has always known. As ~ Carlo Rovelli

[...] she understood that nothing is less obvious in a man than that which seems unquestionable. ~ Louis De Bernieres

[E]ven in getting the wonderful things we long for, we tend to live in want of something more[.] ~ Steve Hagen

Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building. ~ Carlo Petrini

A correct execution of an adagio is the ne plus ultra of our art; and I look on it as the touch-stone of the dancer. ~ Carlo Blasis

For her, from the Tiber down, there, there beyond the crumbling castles, and after the blond vineyards, there was, on the hills and mountains, and in the brief plains of Italy, a kind of great fertile womb, two swollen Eustachian tubes, streaked with an abundance of granules, the granular and greasy, the happy caviar of the race. From time to time, from the great Ovary ripened follicles opened, like pomegranate seeds: and red grains, mad with amorous certitude, descended upon the city, to encounter the male afflatus, the vitalizing impulse, that spermatic aura of which the ovarists of the eighteenth century wrote their fantastic treatise. ~ Carlo Emilio Gadda

We are perhaps the only species on Earth to be conscious of the inevitability of our individual mortality. I fear that soon we shall also have to become the only species that will knowingly watch the coming of its own collective demise, or at least the demise of its civilization. ~ Carlo Rovelli

If you're claiming to be the Supreme Being (even if you're not doing a very good job at it), I wish you were a bit more mentally mature. ~ Carlo Zen

Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar. ~ Carlo Grante

High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton. ~ Carlo Rubbia

Quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed. ~ Carlo M. Cipolla

Hard work is much more important than talent ~ Carlo Rotella

Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. ~ Carlo Ratti

The future has an ancient heart. ~ Carlo Levi

I don't make deals, I make pictures. ~ Carlo Ponti

What role do we have as human beings who perceive, make decisions, laugh, and cry, in this great fresco of the world as depicted by contemporary physics? ~ Carlo Rovelli

To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt. ~ Carlo Rovelli

The quanta of gravity, that is, are not in space; they are themselves space. The ~ Carlo Rovelli

Driving in Monte Carlo is like riding a bike in your house. ~ Nelson Piquet

It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love. ~ Gian Carlo Menotti

Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature. ~ Carlo Petrini

Judges,lawyers an politicians have a license to steal.We don't need one. ~ Carlo Gambino

Quark-antiquark collisions cannot be realized directly since free quarks are not available. The closest substitute is to use collisions between protons and antiprotons. ~ Carlo Rubbia

What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys. ~ Carlo Collodi

[E]ven laws of Nature are not absolutely certain. There may be new circumstances never before examined – inside black holes, say, or within the electron, or close to the speed of light – where even our vaunted laws of Nature break down and, however valid they may be in ordinary circumstances, need correction. ~ Carl Sagan

Rationality and the instinct of collaboration have already given us large regions and long periods of peace and prosperity. Ultimately, they will lead us to a planet without countries, without wars, without patriotism, without religions, without poverty, where we will be able to share the world. Actually, maybe I am not sure I truly believe that I believe this, but I do want to believe that I believe this. ~ Carlo Rovelli

Fate has blessed me. ~ Gian Carlo Menotti

Know therefore! In order to achieve total painting, which requires the active cooperation of all the senses... you must paint, as drunkards sing and vomit, sounds, noises, and smells! ~ Carlo Carra

I'm not very sympathetic to the tendency to bring art to the people. ~ Gian Carlo Menotti

I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own. ~ Yvonne De Carlo

There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art. ~ Carlo Ponti

Einstein's 1905 paper came out and suddenly changed people's thinking about space-time. We're again in the middle of something like that. When the dust settles, time - whatever it may be - could turn out to be even stranger and more illusory than even Einstein could imagine. ~ Carlo Rovelli

The difference between past and future exists only when there is heat. The fundamental phenomenon that distinguishes the future from the past is the fact that heat passes from things that are hotter to things that are colder. So, ~ Carlo Rovelli