Top 1195 Quotes & Sayings by Italian Authors - Page 9

The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

It's because of football that I bought my first car, I bought my first house and I probably had sex for the first time... actually, that was definitely because of football.

Only one player is not important. The most important thing is the squad, and it's important to be together. You can't just lose it over one player.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

Woman is also the element of conflict.

You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand.

My biggest satisfaction was to learn, inexperienced as I was, that it is possible to find ways out of the deepest difficulties.

In order for fashion to progress, we have to always be willing to invest in someone or something new and embrace risks, regardless of the economy.

Somebody ask me, 'Alberto, why you not race in Torino?' I finished my career here in 1998, the 15 of March which was my last victory.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

I was an elementary school teacher.

Women have more energy, for a greater number of years, than men. Men, as they age, become either more wise or more stupid.

If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

I was OK in school, but I always missed a lot because I was playing so much. But if I'd stuck at it, I imagine that I'd be doing something financial or economical. Finance always attracted me, even though maths was always a bit of a love-hate relationship. I would have tried playing football, but I don't think I'd have made it.

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

I utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart.

Paris is great. I stay at the Ritz Paris - I'm good friends with the Director, Frank Klein, and the owner. I lived there 3 years; I was the only foreigner working at Maxim's. They only took French, which was a mistake.

I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.

Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn't just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master.

The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

A lot of the American press at the time was saying 'just watch what happens when Bertelsmann tries to buy EMI, that will be a moment of truth that will show the Commission's true colors.' Well, that deal never happened either.

I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet.

The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.

I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions, the greater the future development and happiness of mankind will be.

Yes, many times an assist is more difficult than a goal; you need to find the right space and measure the force used in order to provide your teammate with the right position in order to score.

I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I'm already thinking glamour.

Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew. And as well as spare parts for the EVA that will be conducted from the station in the following months.

I like pieces that are cool and simple. I try to wear really cute things, but they just don't suit me at all.

I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons.

In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly.

My comedy routines have always been about the health of the nation.

There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard to write about Italy.

If the same punishment is prescribed for two crimes that injure society in different degrees, then men will face no stronger deterrent from committing the greater crime if they find it in their advantage to do so.

The role of a goalkeeper is difficult to judge, above all if you haven't been a goalkeeper. It's like me giving an opinion on someone's job without having had any experience in their sector. You start to realise how many stupid things are said and written about goalkeepers.

I personally don't think that blood ties should be something that signifies so much more than anything else. I understand perfectly when somebody leaves their family for good.

If we look at Sky, the clientele and subscription, I think you see the consumer is tired of paying for a bundle. To pay £70 for 200 channels when maybe they just want to watch sports or football, and maybe some movies or TV series.

I'm always the first player from either team to take the court for the opening tip, and usually when I get out there the three refs are standing in the same spots every time - one at half court, and then one near each free throw line.

But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.

As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do.

At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

I love the feel of good quality Italian black lace that feels delicate and really feminine.

Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant.

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a very positive person.

I'm generally an optimistic person.

We have been out of the top-flight for 16 years and I am thrilled for the whole club and our incredible fans that we are back in the Premier League.

I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

It is quite difficult at PSG because when you lose a game there is a lot of pessimism.

If you want to aim for great targets, then you have to have a large and high-quality squad.

Obviously if there is a Chinese player that has the quality and the ability we will certainly be looking to recruit.

I don't always have the stomach muscles I have, and I get cellulite as well like everyone else.

Innumerable spirits and souls, when spread out through the same space, do not interfere with each other such that the diffusion of one would affect the diffusion of an infinity of others.