"Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948."

-- Gianni Agnelli

#War Quotes #Cities Quotes #Political Quotes

“I'm handsome, no ands, buts or ifs.”
“I went to high school in the 1970s and was a real daydreamer and not the best student.”

Source : "John Benjamin Hickey on 'Manhattan's' Modern Moment, 'Big C' and 'Pitch Perfect'". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 27, 2014.
“It's dark already and I'm out here again, talking, telling the story to the quiet night.”

Source : Tim Winton (2011). “In the Winter Dark”, p.1, Pan Macmillan
“When 1:45 came, half the class left, and Danny Hupfer whispered, "If she gives you a cream puff after we leave, I'm going to kill you" - which was not something that someone headed off to prepare for his bar mitzvah should be thinking. When 1:55 came and the other half of the class left, Meryl Lee whispered, "If she gives you one after we leave, I'm going to do Number 408 to you." I didn't remember what Number 408 was, but it was probably pretty close to what Danny Hupfer had promised. Even Mai Thi looked at me with narrowed eyes and said, "I know your home." Which sounded pretty ominous.”
“Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.”
“I've been the saddest while I've been the most successful, strangely.”
“To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness!”
“Just as it is the province of science to find out what the facts of life are, to classify them and use them to verify or discredit whatever theory may have been advanced concerning them, so it is the province of a living theology to be constantly seeking from God the wit and wisdom that will interpret anew and more truly the parable of life.”

Source : Burnett Hillman Streeter, Arthur Clutton-Brock, Cyril William Emmet, James Arthur Hadfield, Lily Dougall (1922). “Immortality: An Essay in Discovery, Co-ordinating Scientific, Psychical, and Biblical Research”

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