"I believe that reforms will not really take hold if they do not gradually come into the culture of the people."

-- Mario Monti

#Believe Quotes #People Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand”
“the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for.”
“So here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it:”
“I don't think I could be terribly demanding even if I wanted to be.”
“I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.”
“Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.”
“Capoeira is a game, it is dance, it is fight, it is of war and it is of peace, it is of culture, of music, it is a portion of things.”
“If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.”

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