Matilde Serao famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.

  • The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

  • I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.

  • Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

  • I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.

  • Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.

  • If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

  • Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.

  • Greyhound racing is a self-regulating gambling business that depends on the uncontrolled breeding and unaccountable disappearance of thousands of dogs every year. That is a situation that is unacceptable and indefensible

  • If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths young men principally, of course to our way of life.