Mana Crescendo > Mana's Quotes

“It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness--however temporary, however flimsy--of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another.”
― Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories

“Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.”
― Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories

“My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.”
― Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories

“I began to understand that there were certain talkers--certain girls--whom people liked to listen to, not because of what they, the girls, had to say, but because of the delight they took in saying it. A delight in themselves, a shine on their faces, a conviction that whatever they were telling about was remarkable and that they themselves could not help but give pleasure. There might be other people--people like me--who didn't concede this, but that was their loss. And people like me would never be the audience these girls were after, anyway.”
― Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories

“I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.”
― Cervantès, Don Quichotte I

“By God and upon my conscience", said the devil, "I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about." "This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian," said Sancho; "for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedraervantes

“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
― Virginia Woolf

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
― Virginia Woolf

“No matter how much you love a man, always have a stash of money that would get you as far away from him as possible in an emergency.”
― Dorothy Koomson, The Woman He Loved Before

“who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you”
― e. e. cummings

“Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.”
― Plutarch

“Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“But charisma only wins people’s attention. Once you have their attention, you have to have something to tell them.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf

“he's a genius, she's a genius, wow, you know alot of geniuses, you should meet some stupid people sometime, you might learn something”
― Woody Allen

“I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.”
― Woody Allen

“I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.”
― Woody Allen

“A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men.
I have the strength of one small boy... with polio.”
― Woody Allen

“All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.”
― Woody Allen

“Tradition is the illusion of permanence.”
― Woody Allen

“I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm.”
― Woody Allen

“He used to say to his melancholia patients:
"You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.”
― Alfred Adler

“È sempre più facile combattere per i propri principi che seguirli.”
― Alfred Adler

“we limit ourselves to normal cases of mutual influence, we find that those people are most capable of being influenced who are most amenable to reason and logic, those whose social feeling has been least distorted. On the contrary, those who thirst for superiority and desire domination are very difficult to influence. Observation teaches us this fact every day.”
― Alfred Adler, Understanding Human Nature

“To be human means to feel inferior.”
― Alfred Adler

“seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.”
― Alfred Adler

“A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.”
― Alfred Adler