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“Dovremmo sempre ricordarci che la stupidità potrà anche essere un dono di Dio, ma, come diceva il santo Papa Karol Wojtyla, non bisogna di certo abusarne, anche perché, come ci ricorda Aristotele, la giusta misura è sempre un'ottima virtù.”
Source: Aforismi contro il potere e la stupidità
“Dovreste sempre lasciare che le persone vi sottovalutino. Perché nel fraintendere le vostre abilità e la vostra intelligenza, stanno semplicemente dimostrando la loro vulnerabilità.”
Source: Permanent Record
“Dovresti consolarmi un po'! Sei inutile, sei un ectoplasma! Che tu ci sia o no, non fa differenza!"
"Allora se non cambia che io ci sia o meno... starò qui con te. Ti starò accanto.”
Source: 四月は君の嘘 8 [Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso 8]
“Dovrà imparare a stabilire dei limiti e a farli conoscere alla persone che la circondano. La sua personalità la induce spesso a cercare di compiacere gli altri: una forma di sovradattamento cronico ai bisogni del prossimo a danno dei propri. Per natura lei è molto empatica, ma anche se è buona cosa occuparsi del benessere altrui, non bisogna confondere l'empatia "asciutta" con l'empatia "bagnata"! Con quest'ultima ci si fa carico del pathos dell'altro, si assorbono le sue emozioni negative e si finisce per stare male a propria volta. Con l'empatia asciutta, invece, si riesce ad ascoltare i problemi di chi ci sta attorno senza per questo farsi contaminare dagli umori nefasti. Smetta di essere troppo gentile; sia semplicemente autentica nelle sue emozioni e impari a dire di volta in volta cosa la disturba. Per esprimere ciò che sente è meglio una FESTA: F sta per i Fatti che l'hanno contrariata, E: esprima la sua emozione, S: pensi a una soluzione vantaggiosa per entrambi, TA: proponga un Terreno d'Accordo, un punto d'incontro.”
“Dovunque arrivasse, in questa congiuntura, l’influsso dell’indefinibile sul contegno di Isabel, non si trattava certo del pensiero, anche se non formulato, di una sua unione con Caspar Goodwood; poiché, se aveva potuto opporre resistenza ad esser conquistata dalle grandi mani tranquille del suo corteggiatore inglese, era per lo meno altrettanto lontana dall’esser disposta a permettere al giovane di Boston di prendere esplicito possesso di lei. Dopo aver letto la sua lettera, il sentimento nel quale cercava rifugio era quello di considerare criticamente questo suo esser venuto all’estero; poiché parte dell’ascendente che egli aveva su di lei stava nel fatto che sembrava privarla del suo senso della libertà. C’era un impeto di sgradevole intensità, quasi una crudeltà fisica, in quel suo modo di ergerlesi di fronte. A volte era stata perseguitata dall’idea, dal pericolo, della sua disapprovazione e si era domandata - riguardo che mai per nessun altro aveva avuto in egual misura - se a lui sarebbe piaciuto ciò che lei faceva. La difficoltà stava nel fatto che, più di ogni altro uomo che avesse mai conosciuto, più del povero Lord Warburton (aveva cominciato ormai ad elargire a Sua Grazia il beneficio di questo epiteto) Caspar Goodwood adoperava con lei una energia - ed ella l’aveva già sentita come una forza - che era propria della sua vera natura. Non era per niente questione delle sue qualità; era questione dello spirito che stazionava nella chiara fiamma dei suoi occhi, come una persona che non si stancasse mai di guardar dalla finestra. Le piacesse o no, egli insisteva, sempre, con tutto il suo peso, con tutta la sua forza: anche nei rapporti più comuni con lui, bisognava tener conto di questo. L’idea di una limitazione della libertà era per lei particolarmente sgradevole, ora che aveva appena dato una sorta di risalto alla sua indipendenza guardando senza batter ciglio la grossa esca offertale da Lord Warburton, e riuscendo tuttavia a distoglierne lo sguardo. A volte era sembrato che Caspar Goodwood si schierasse dalla parte del destino di lei, che fosse il fatto più ostinato che ella avesse conosciuto; in tali momenti diceva a se stessa che poteva sfuggirgli per un po’, ma che alla fine doveva venir con lui a patti, e sarebbero stati senza dubbio patti a lui favorevoli. Il suo impulso era stato di valersi delle cose che potessero aiutarla a opporre resistenza a questa costrizione; e quest’impulso aveva avuto gran parte nel suo caloroso assenso all’invito della zia, giuntole in un momento in cui si attendeva di giorno in giorno di vedersi di fronte il signor Goodwood, e in un momento in cui era lieta di avere una risposta pronta per una cosa che lui, ne era certa, le avrebbe detto.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“Dovunque, in tutto il mondo, centinaia o migliaia di milioni di individui, tutti eguali, ignari dell’esistenza di altri individui, tenuti separati da mura di odio e di bugie, eppure quasi gli stessi.”
Source: 1984
“Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“Down along the creek
I remember something
Her, the heron hurried away
When first I breeched that last Sunday, ooh”
Source: Bon Iver: 22, A Million Piano Vocal Guitar Artist Songbook | Sheet Music Collection for Piano Voice and Guitar with Chords | Folk Rock Album Songbook with Complete Arrangements | Music Score Book
“Down and out? You are not alone! Most people have gone through that process. Yet today, they are a success.”
“Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so pure and blessed that even yet the world does not believe in it.”
“Down below people were clipping by going nowhere fast. You could feel the long despairing history of the place. You could actually hear it, a low hum like the buzz of a sick bee that resonated with the fragments of a million broken dreams.”
Source: Beginner's Luke
“Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe.”
Source: Autobiographical and Social Essays
“Down by the lake Portia saw the pale green of her mother’s gown. She was with Papa, of course, and as Portia watched, he pulled her into his arms. They must be kissing, though she couldn’t see that far in the hazy light. Their bodies were so close together that they looked like one person. There was something about the way Papa held their mother tightly, as if she were very precious, that made Portia happy down to the bottom of her stomach.
“What’s out there?” Emily said, coming up behind her. Portia pointed, even though ladies don’t point.
“Ridiculous,” Emily said with a huff of disgust. “That’ll end in another baby, mark my words, Portia.” And it did.”
Source: With This Kiss: Part Three
“Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.”
“Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her did not agree. In a field by the river my love and I did stand, And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand. She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.”
“Down crumbling desert slopes
and wind-wrought shapes of dusty stone;
Where the sandy fur of the meer cat scrapes lightly through the sod-cut tunnels;
Into heights of wispy thoughts and layered twilights,
Where red-eyed hawks lie flat on soft winds;
Dreams, born and living,
Have but one soul:
Yours.”
“Down cycles are not fun. But they form the basis for enormous future profitability”
“Down deep in every soul has a hidden longing, impulse, and
ambition to do something fine and enduring...If you are willing,
great things are possible to you.”
“Down deep in His heart God is a comedian who loves to make us laugh.”
Source: Timebends: A Life
“Down deep in his heart he knew that we all have the same promise of the unlimited help of the Universal Intelligence that guides all things. If we want it, we only have to plug into it with the master keys of desire and trust.”
“Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.”
“Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.”
“Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down,
'Twas sad as sad could be;
And we did speak only to break
The silence of the sea!
All in a hot and copper sky,
The bloody Sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the Moon.
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.”
Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems
“Down every aisle a single thought follows me like a shadow: Brand Italy is strong. When it comes to cultural currency, there is no brand more valuable than this one. From lipstick-red sports cars to svelte runway figures to enigmatic opera singers, Italian culture means something to everyone in the world. But nowhere does the name Italy mean more than in and around the kitchen. Peruse a pantry in London, Osaka, or Kalamazoo, and you're likely to find it spilling over with the fruits of this country: dried pasta, San Marzano tomatoes, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, jars of pesto, Nutella.
Tucked into the northwest corner of Italy, sharing a border with France and Switzerland, Piedmont may be as far from the country's political and geographical center as possible, but it is ground zero for Brand Italy. This is the land of Slow Food. Of white truffles. Barolo. Vermouth. Campari. Breadsticks. Nutella. Fittingly, it's also the home of Eataly, the supermarket juggernaut delivering a taste of the entire country to domestic and international shoppers alike. This is the Eataly mother ship, the first and most symbolically important store for a company with plans for covering the globe in peppery Umbrian oil, and shavings of Parmigiano-Reggiano Vacche Rosse.
We start with the essentials: bottle opener, mini wooden cutting board, hard-plastic wineglasses. From there, we move on to more exciting terrain: a wild-boar sausage from Tuscany. A semiaged goat's-milk cheese from Molise. A tray of lacy, pistachio-pocked mortadella. Some soft, spicy spreadable 'nduja from Calabria. A jar of gianduja, the hazelnut-chocolate spread that inspired Nutella- just in case we have any sudden blood sugar crashes on the trail.”
Source: Pasta, Pane, Vino: Deep Travels Through Italy's Food Culture
“Down fall of a man is never the end of his life but the very foundation which he can build his life, if he do not get discouraged.”
“Down fall of a man is never the end of his life. He can find faith to rise again,”
“down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms”
Source: The odyssey
“Down goes Cena! Down goes Cena! Down goes Cena!”
“Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!”
“Down here in the street, there is a lot less of the law and a lot more personalities. Everyone has found their way around the particular law that influences their endeavors. No one absolutely adheres to the guidelines of the one true law. Everyone is just trying to get by; there’s no room or time for the law or the courts; everyone finds their own way. That’s how things get done, you get yours best you can and I get mine best I can, but sometimes we can get at crossed purposes with each other and then we sort it out ourselves. We don’t call the police, we don’t file a legal suit; we negotiate, we butt heads, but we resolve the issue. That’s what you are seeing Tom, how the real world goes around. Now have a drink, relax and see our other side of life.”
Source: The Deathbed Confessions
“Down here the world is filthy, but up there the snow purifies all!”
Source: The Climber, Vol. 1
“Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail.”
“Down in Denver, all I did was die.”
Source: On the Road
“Down in devil gate drive. I led the angel pack on the road to sin. Knock down the gates, let me in.”
“Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean, there lived a girl that I swear to the world made the alligators look tame.”
“Down in Texas, Rick Perry announced he will not run for reelection. He said 'I executed one last woman, that fertilizer plant exploded, I returned abortions to back alleys where it belongs, my work here is done.' I think that's what he said, he was chewing a crayon.”
“Down in the bottom of my childhood my father stands laughing.”
“Down in the city are the nice houses and the so-so houses and the lovers making out in dark yards and the babies crying for their moms, and I wonder if, other than Jesus, has this ever happened before. Maybe it happens all the time. Maybe there's angry dead all over, hiding in rooms, covered with blankets, bossing around their scared, embarrassed relatives. Because how would we know?”
“Down in the deep, up in the sky , I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till I die The old familiar faces.”
“Down in the dirt,
that’s where I’ve been,
They say good news follows bad news,
I just wonder when.”
Source: Tired Wonder: Beginnings and Endings
“Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.”
“Down in the human spirit there is a center that opens on to infinity... Our deepest hungers are not for food and drink, not for amusements and recreations, not for property and wardrobes, not for notoriety and gossip. We hunger for truth, we thirst to drink beauty, we yearn to celebrate, we seek to delight, we stretch out to love and be loved. That is why anything less than everything is not enough.”
Source: Happy are You Poor: The Simple Life and Spiritual Freedom
“Down in the national news section, there's an article on a new pill, the 'Valium' they're calling it, 'to help women cope with everyday challenges.' God, I could use about ten of those little pills right now.”
Source: The Help
“Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done.”
“Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!” “Tempting,” Percy called down.”
“Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.”
Source: Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...
“Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.”
“Down is an incredibly important band to me. And there's one other project that may be a little tough for people to understand - it's not sonically heavy, but subject-wise it's absolutely heavy. It's a band that I've been in for many, many yearsm and I've just been waiting for the right itme, and boy, it sure is the right time. So, yeah, you will hear music from Philip Anselmo again, and it ain't gonna be nothing nice.”
“Down on my knees / I peel back the layers of the world.”
“Down on our knees, we wage the holy war.”