NFL Favourite Quotes

Federico:

"When the going gets tough, the tough get going" (John Belushi)

"Those who would trade freedom for security... deserve neither" (Benjamin Franklin)

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, while the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man" (George Bernard Shaw)

"Stai calmo!" (F. Rosei & S. Fontana)

"Where's my manuscript?" or "Where's my <insert overdue task>?" (F. Rosei)

"Homo ornat locum, non hominem locus"

"Per aspera, ad astra"

"Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu or botho. It means the essence of being human. You know when it is there and when it is absent. It speaks about humanness, gentleness, hospitality, putting yourself out on behalf of others, being vulnerable. It embraces compassion and roughness. It recognises that my humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together" (Desmond Tutu)

"Il tempo fugge, ma ’ndo cazzo va???" (Anonymous)

"Nothing succeeds like success" (Anonymous)

"In parvitate immensitas"

"The history of Science is the history of people breaking the boundaries between disciplines" (I. Prigogine)

"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master" (Leonardo da Vinci)

"If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some" (Benjamin Franklin)

" Basta, la vita va a fette. E su ogni fetta sta scritto, in caratteri dolci di zucchero e crema, il nome di una donna" (Alberto Moravia)

"Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire" (William B. Yeats)

FabioV:

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us" (Alexander Graham Bell)

"Stars are holes in the sky from which the light of the Infinite shine through" (Confucius)

"A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it" (Albert Einstein)

"What does not kill me makes me stronger" (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Liliya:

"I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research." (Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97; also in Transformation : Arts, Communication, Environment (1950) by Harry Holtzman, p. 138)

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." (Letter to his son Eduard (5 February 1930))

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change." (attributed to Charles Darwin since at least 1997, but without any citation of an original source)

Daria:

"Do what you like. Like what you do" ("Life is good" store)

Cristian:

"As we know,

There are known knowns.

There are things we know we know.

We also know

There are known unknowns.

That is to say,

We know there are some things

We do not know.

But there are also unknown unknowns,

The ones we don’t know

We don’t know." (Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, Feb. 2002)

Anonymous:

"Chi semina cazzate, raccoglie inculate"