Top 1195 Quotes & Sayings by Italian Authors - Page 17

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight.

It's couture. Everything has to be done by hand. That is most important. That is the crucial element. Without it, that is not couture anymore.

I say to my industrialist friends, when you have guests from out of town, I don't care how important they are, you should feed them the essence of Italian culture: spaghetti, bread and olive oil.

We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case.

You have to use your pain as your gift. If you're able to take something really negative and repackage it as something positive, you've nailed it.

So one thing that I want to do is to make people realize that astronauts in general are very normal people. They are down to Earth, so to speak. I know it sounds contradictive, but we are very normal people. We are very normal people with a fantastic privilege and opportunity to do something that is extraordinary.

The secret of using makeup for fashion is to have fun with it. When people see that you are playful, that's attractive. Sometimes people apply makeup because they have bags under their eyes or because they don't feel good, and that just reads 'insecure.'

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

You keep dreaming big, never put the limit on your dreams, and believe that everything can come true.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

At the beginning, when you don't look so pregnant, I think it's all about dressing boyish, with jackets and loose layers.

I love the sunrise, as I am definitely a morning person! It's a great time to get up and have a coffee in the garden by myself before everybody wakes up.

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

Milan is a true metropolis: strong and fearless but welcoming, too. Little by little, I came to realize that I could become someone here.

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners in crime. Rogue economics is turning the global market into our worst nightmare.

The Santiago Bernabeu is an amazing stadium.

At home we never mention football. Not with my wife, not with my sons, not with my mother. Sometimes they will see something in the paper and ask me what I think. But I say, nothing.

Nobody in Formula One has won so many titles, so many races as I did. So Ferrari for me is crucial; it is more than important.

To become a singer requires work, work, and again, work! It need not be in any special corner of the earth; there is no one spot that will do more for you than other places. It doesn't matter so much where you are if you have intelligence and a good ear.

Life is like this: things come and go.

I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one.

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.

Inoki is nothing but a third rater in my estimation.

I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

Neapolitans are extremely empathetic, whereas the typical northern attitude is more about not showing or sharing your feelings.

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.

The whole soul is in the whole body, in the bones and in the veins and in the heart; it is no more present in one part than in another, and it is no less present in one part than in the whole, nor in the whole less than in one part.

Sicily is a blessed land. First, because of its geographic position in the Mediterranean. Second, for its history and all the different peoples who have settled there: Arabs, Greeks, Normans, the Swedes. That has made us different from others. We exaggerate, we overdo. We love Greek tragedy. We cry, we fight, sometimes for nothing.

And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all.

I have never seen a talent like Ronaldo. He always scores, scores, scores. The first game he played for Milan, Sienna away, I said to him, 'I can't put you on the pitch. You are 100kg.' 'Mister,' he said, 'don't worry, I will score.' I put him in, and he scored twice.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

We need to cut the pensions and annuities of parliamentarians, regional councilors, and employees of constitutional bodies.

The problem is that resuscitating old labels doesn't work anymore. I think it is very important to give hope to a new generation of designers, so that one day they really can put their own names out there.

If you are a loser in this sport, you are a loser also in life.

I will be the defence lawyer of the Italian people.

Before me, everything was black or navy blue or gray or brown or beige, things like that, for daytime. I began using shocking pink and ice blue and all kinds of bright colors. And I dyed furs.

We shall meet again before long to march to new triumphs.

Pierluigi Gollini is a highly-rated goalkeeper in Italy, he's young, a good shot-stopper, he comes for crosses, he's good with his feet.

I always write in pencil, so I can erase.

For Napoli's fans, I went from an idol to a traitor; people did not love me anymore.

Interest rates do not have to be identical across the whole euro area, but it is unacceptable if major differences arise from broken capital markets or concern about a euro area break-up.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

I'm an opera lover.

Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University.

I want a woman to feel the cut of the scissors in the clothes.

I'm not an actor, I'm not good looking. It's not what I do, and I don't want to be one. Maybe if I watched myself I would then try to be one.

In order to be vigorously continued, nuclear power must be profoundly modified.

I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

People don't live a good life when they take themselves too seriously, because they're always concerned about what everybody else thinks.

I had very strict parents. My two brothers were power and freedom. I was powerlessness and seclusion.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.

Ancelotti, for me, is a great person - a great manager.