Ivo Quotes

1. "I tend to be a little too old to feel guilty about watching anything. Like, I watch 'Survivor' every week."
Author: Adam Scott

2. "Radio One played "Ebony and Ivory," a new song by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. The breakfast DJ Mike Read played it two times in a row which was pretty hardcore of him as it was clearly the worst song of the decade so far, perhaps of the entire century."
Author: Adrian McKinty

3. "If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account."
Author: Al Goldstein

4. "Qual è il significato della vita umana, e, più in generale, della vita di ogni creatura? Essere religiosi significa avere la risposta a questo interrogativo. Voi chiedete: è giusto porsi questa domanda? E io vi rispondo: chi non attribuisce un significato alla propria vita e a quella delle altre creature è non solo infelice, ma anche poco dotato per la vita"
Author: Albert Einstein

5. "Quello che per primo vede l'America. Su ogni nave ce n'è uno. E non bisogna pensare che succeda per caso, no... e nemmeno per una questione di diottrie, è il destino, quello. Quella è gente che da sempre c'aveva già quell'istante stampato nella vita. E quando erano bambini, tu potevi guardarli negli occhi , e se guardavi bene, già la vedevi, l'America, già li pronta a scattare, a scivolare giù per nervi e sangue e che ne so io, fino al cervello e da lì alla lingua, fin dentro quel grido (gridando), AMERICA, c'era già, in quegli occhi, di bambino, tutta, l'America."
Author: Alessandro Baricco

6. "You beautiful girl. You've given new life to my Vincent. He might be strong of spirit, but he's a tender soul.And you've touched him. For as long as I've known him, his only motivation has been vengeance and loyalty,which may be why he's one of the few survivors. But now he has..." She paused, thinking twice abiout whatshe was going to say, and settled for, "You."
Author: Amy Plum

7. "The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects."
Author: Arlie Russell Hochschild

8. "If there was some way of knowing which boys were likely to turn out to be decent men, boys that could love us back as passionately as we felt we could love them, then we could banish the likelihood of divorce and unhappiness to a statistically unlikely outcome."
Author: Belinda Jeffrey

9. "In effetti stamattina ho proprio versato tutte le lacrime che avevo in corpo. Sarebbe più giusto dire che il corpo ha versato tutte le lacrime accumulate dalla mente nel corso di quest'inverosimile carneficina. La quantità di sé che viene eliminata con le lacrime! Piangendo si fa molta più acqua che pisciando, ci si pulisce infinitamente meglio che tuffandosi nel lago più puro, si posa il fardello dello spirito sul marciapiede del binario d'arrivo. Una volta che l'anima si è liquefatta, si può celebrare il ricongiungimento con il corpo. Stanotte il mio dormirà bene. Ho pianto di sollievo, credo. [...] Onore alle lacrime!"
Author: Daniel Pennac

10. "The secrets of survivors are not easily surrendered. They are locked away behind barricaded doors and accessed at great risk to those who possess them."
Author: Daniel Silva

11. "Odlucio je (na svoju odgovornost) da u životu postane Jedan Duhoviti Kockar I Svima Simpatican Boem…"
Author: Ðorde Balaševic

12. "If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it."
Author: Elizabeth Strout

13. "Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it's all perfectly normal in the morning."
Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel

14. "Deslumbrado y alterado por esa luz, pero también por ser únicamente el doctor Pasavento, quise creer que todo lo que me pasaba era, simple y llanamente, producto de una fuerte resaca. Porque si uno lo pensaba bien, ¿era verosímil que durante toda la noche un médico, sin duda monstruoso, probablemente un neuroquímico del cerebro, me hubiera implantado la memoria de doctor Pasavento?"Doctor Pasavento. Enrique Vila-Matas (Satán Vivo). p. 172."
Author: Enrique Vila Matas

15. "My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits."
Author: Eric Allin Cornell

16. "He was just drifting off to sleep when it occurred to him that perhaps the dog was not so ordinary after all. Perhaps he was someone the ogre had changed, and Ivo was going to spend the night hugging a headmaster or a tax inspector"
Author: Eva Ibbotson

17. "Lei era la porta che avevo avuto il coraggio di aprire e che non riuscivo più a richiudere."
Author: Fabio Volo

18. "Father Brown got to his feet, putting his hands behind him. 'Odd, isn't it,' he said, 'that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?"
Author: G.K. Chesterton

19. "Ruins and basilicas, palaces and colossi, set in the midst of a sordid present, where all that was living and warm-blooded seemed sunk in the deep degeneracy of a superstition divorced from reverence; the dimmer but yet eager titanic life gazing and struggling on walls and ceilings; the long vistas of white forms whose marble eyes seemed to hold the monotonous light of an alien world—all this vast wreck of ambitious ideals, sensuous and spiritual, mixed confusedly with the signs of breathing forgetfulness and degradation…the vastness of St. Peter's the huge bronze canopy, the excited intention in the attitudes and garments of the prophets and evangelists in the mosaics above, and the red drapery which was being hung for Christmas spreading itself everywhere like a disease of the retina."
Author: George Eliot

20. "For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live."
Author: George Orwell

21. "Así que así era yo y no había quien me cambiara, porque pasaba el tiempo y me ponía viejo y los días pasaban y se convertían en fecha y los años se convertían en efemérides y yo seguía así, quedándome con las noches, metiéndolas en un vaso con hielo o en un negativo o en el recuerdo"
Author: Guillermo Cabrera Infante

22. "Hace tiempo, cuando se estrenó Grupo salvaje, de Sam Peckinpah, en la rueda de prensa una periodista alzó la mano y preguntó en tono inquisitivo: «¿Qué necesidad creen que hay en mostrar tanta sangre?». Ernest Borgnine, uno de los actores, respondió con aire perplejó: «Pero, señora, es que, cuando te disparan, sangras». La película se filmó en plena época de la guerra del Vietnam.Me gusta esta frase. Posiblemente sea uno de los principios básicos de la realidad. Aceptar las cosas difíciles de desentrañar como cosas difíciles de desentrañar, aceptar el hecho de sangrar. Disparar y sangrar.Es que, cuando te disparan, sangras."
Author: Haruki Murakami

23. "When we're in the story, when we're part of it, we can't know the outcome. It's only later that we think we can see what the story was. But do we ever really know? And does anybody else, perhaps, coming along a little later, does anybody else really care? ... History is written by the survivors, but what is that history? That's the point I was trying to make just now. We don't know what the story is when we're in it, and even after we tell it we're not sure. Because the story doesn't end."
Author: James Robertson

24. "« -...sono andato nella Londra del 1610 e ho scoperto che Shakespeare era solo un attore con un secondo lavoro potenzialmente imbarazzante come ricettatore a Stratford. Nulla di strano che lo tenesse nascosto - lo farebbe chiunque.-Chi li ha scritti allora? Bacon? Marlowe?-No, è insorto un problemino. Vedi, nessuno ha mai sentito parlare di quelle opere, figuriamoci averle scritte.Non capivo.-Cosa vuoi dire? Non ci sono?-Proprio così. Non esistono. Non sono mai state scritte. Né da lui, né da altri.-Scusate- si intromise Landen, che ne aveva abbastanza -ma abbiamo visto il Riccardo III sei settimane fa.-Certo- disse mio padre -Il tempo è scardinato alla grande. Naturalmente bisognava intervenire. Ho portato con me una copia delle opere complete e le ho date all'attore Shakespeare nel 1592 perché le distribuisse secondo uno schema preciso. Questo soddisfa la tua domanda? »"
Author: Jasper Fforde

25. "Jamás alcanzaremos el objetivo de convergencia económica porque esta labor se vería frustrada por una catástrofe medioambiental. Muchos ecologistas afirman que, estamos condenados a reducir consecuentemente el crecimiento económico.."
Author: Jeffrey D. Sachs

26. "Los recuerdos declarativos parecen almacenarse definitivamente en los mismos sistemas corticales involucrados en el procesado inicial del estímulo. En otras palabras, la morada final es también la región que sirvió como punto de partida inicial. La única separación es el tiempo, no el lugar. Estos datos tienen mucho que decir no sólo sobre el almacenaje, sino también sobre el recuerdo. La recuperación, diez años más tarde, de una huella de memoria totalmente madura puede constituir simplemente un intento de reconstruir los momentos iniciales del aprendizaje, cuando el recuerdo sólo tenía unos milisegundos de edad."
Author: John Medina

27. "Het keuze-geobsedeerde Westen geeft de mens die anders wil eten meer ruimte dan elke andere cultuur ooit heeft gedaan, maar de ironie wil dat de volstrekt niet kieskeurige omnivoor - 'ik vind alles best, ik eet alles' - maatschappelijk bewuster kan lijken dan de mens die op een manier probeert te eten die goed is voor de samenleving. De keuze voor een bepaald soort voedsel wordt door allerlei factoren bepaald, maar de rede (en zelfs het bewustzijn) staat doorgaans niet hoog op die lijst."
Author: Jonathan Safran Foer

28. "The light died on the window-sill as the last survivor of a charge dies on the enemy parapet, murdered but glorious."
Author: Josephine Tey

29. "My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce."
Author: Joyce Brothers

30. "Ružan cin možeš da ne ponoviš i možeš da se pokaješ zbog njega, ali ružne misli radaju iskljucivo ružne cini. Ružan cin samo utire put ružnim cinima, a ružne misli nezadrživo vuku tim putem."
Author: Leo Tolstoy

31. "Nobody wants to go through divorce, especially when there's young children involved."
Author: Lindsay Davenport

32. "Esto ocurre una sóla vez en la vida. Conoces a alguien y tienes esa extraña sensación, rozas su piel y es la mejor piel que has sentido jamás, y no hay perfume en el mundo capaz de superar su olor, y sabes que nunca te aburrirías con ella porque ella es interesante incluso cuando no hace nada. Incluso sin saberlo todo de ella, la quieres. Sabes quién es y a ti te funciona en todos los aspectos. —Los brazos de Jason se tensaron—. He pasado los últimos diez años estando con una persona equivocada detrás de otra, lo que me capacita para saber cuándo he encontrado a la mujer de mi vida. —Le besó el pequeño espacio detrás del lóbulo de la oreja—. Tú también lo sientes. Sabes que estamos destinados a estar juntos."
Author: Lisa Kleypas

33. "Se os pregadores do evangelho soubessem o poder da Palavra de Deus, deixariam de lado seus sofismas, suas ideias, suas interpretações erróneas e se renderiam ao crivo da Escritura, permitindo que ela diga, o que de facto ela quer dizer, e que ela faça o que precisa ser feito de forma muitas vezes secreta e silenciosa no coração dos ouvintes."
Author: Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

34. "Più la gente fa, più la società si sviluppa, più aumentano i problemi. La crescente devastazione della natura, l'esaurimento delle risorse, l'ansia dello spirito umano, tutte queste cose sono state provocate e diffuse dal tentativo dell'umanità di realizzare qualcosa. In origine non c'era nessuna ragione per progredire e non c'era nulla che dovesse essere fatto. Siamo arrivati al punto in cui non abbiamo altra via che portare avanti un movimento che non porti avanti niente."
Author: Masanobu Fukuoka

35. "Wait--we have one left," the runner said, bringing out what was surely the most expensive bouquet of all: a three-foot tall arrangement of two hundred white roses, in the palest ivory color. All the girls swooned. Almost no boys bought white roses ever. It was a big sign of commitment. But this one practically trumpeted a captured heart.The runner set the bouquet in front of Schuyler.Mimi raised an eyebrow. She had always won the roses lottery. What was this all about?For me?" Schuyler asked, awestruck by the size of the thing.She took the card from the tallest stem.For Schuyler, who doesn't like love stories." It was not signed."
Author: Melissa De La Cruz

36. "Slušaj - kažem joj - govorim ozbiljno: Hajde da se vjencamo. Neceš mnogo dobiti. Šašav sam, nesrecan, cesto neprijatan, u životu sigurno necu daleko dotjerati, ali cu te voljeti! Ako ti je to dovoljno, pristani."
Author: Meša Selimović

37. "Tutto passa. Le sofferenze, i tormenti, il sangue, la fame e la pestilenza. La spada sparirà, e le stelle invece rimarranno, quando anche le ombre dei nostri corpi e delle nostre azioni più non saranno sulla terra. Non esiste uomo che non lo sappia. Perché allora non vogliamo rivolgere il nostro sguardo alle stelle?"
Author: Mikhail Bulgakov

38. "In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant "divide." In truth, it comes from "divertere," which means "to divert."I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else."
Author: Mitch Albom

39. "A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking."
Author: Mokokoma Mokhonoana

40. "A la mayoría de la gente le cabe en la cabeza el suicidio, supongo; la mayoría de la gente, aunque lo tenga muy oculto en lo más profundo de sí misma, puede recordar alguna vez en la vida en la que pensó si realmente quería despertar a la mañana siguiente. Querer morir parece una parte de estar vivo."
Author: Nick Hornby

41. "La admiración por el Padre, símbolo de lo cerrado y agresivo, capaz de chingar y abrir, se transparenta en una expresión que empleamos cuando queremos imponer a otro nuestra superioridad: "Yo soy tu padre" […] No es el fundador de un pueblo; no es el patriarca que ejerce la patria protestad; no es rey, juez, jefe de clan. Es el poder, aislado en su misma potencia, sin relación ni compromiso con el mundo exterior. Es la incomunicación pura, la soledad que se devora a sí misma y devora lo que toca. No pertenece a nuestro mundo; no es de nuestra ciudad; no vive en nuestro barrio. Viene de lejos, está lejos siempre. Es el extraño. Es imposible no advertir la semejanza que guarda la figura del "macho" con la del conquistador español. Ése es el modelo –más mítico que real– que rige las representaciones que el pueblo mexicano se ha hecho de los poderosos: caciques, señores feudales, hacendados, políticos, generales, capitanes de industria. Todos ellos son "machos, "chingones"."
Author: Octavio Paz

42. "I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have."
Author: Patrick Carney

43. "THE UNICORN: The saintly hermit, midway through his prayersstopped suddenly, and raised his eyes to witnessthe unbelievable: for there before him stoodthe legendary creature, startling white, thathad approached, soundlessly, pleading with his eyes.The legs, so delicately shaped, balanced abody wrought of finest ivory. And ashe moved, his coat shone like reflected moonlight.High on his forehead rose the magic horn, the signof his uniqueness: a tower held upright by his alert, yet gentle, timid gait.The mouth of softest tints of rose and grey, whenopened slightly, revealed his gleaming teeth,whiter than snow. The nostrils quivered faintly:he sought to quench his thirst, to rest and find repose.His eyes looked far beyond the saint's enclosure,reflecting vistas and events long vanished,and closed the circle of this ancient mystic legend."
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke

44. "There are no veterans, only survivors."
Author: Rick H. Blase

45. "I wish we'd never got divorced. He and I both wish we'd never got divorced, but we did. I wish I could go back and be the bride again, but I can't."
Author: Sarah Ferguson

46. "Alguien escribió una vez: "Somos todos niños en un vasto jardín de infantes, procurando formar el nombre de Dios con letras de un rompecabezas que está equivocado"."
Author: Tennessee Williams

47. "While genes are pivotal in establishing some aspects of emotionality, experience plays a central role in turning genes on and off. DNA is not the heart's destiny; the genetic lottery may determine the cards in your deck, but experience deals the hand you can play. Scientists have proven, for example, that good mothering can override a disadvantageous temperament.(152)"
Author: Thomas Lewis

48. "A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own."
Author: Thomas Mann

49. "São velhos, querida. A vida manipulou-os, sugou-lhes tudo da alma até ficarem só um tubo digestivo."
Author: Vergílio Ferreira

50. "Sentivo l'urgenza di cominciare a vivere. Cominciare a vivere la mia vera vita? Quand'anche dovesse essere una mascherata pura e semplice e niente affatto la mia vita, era venuto ugualmente il momento in cui bisognava ch'io mi mettessi in cammino, che trascinassi i miei torbidi piedi"
Author: Yukio Mishima

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