#italia

And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight. ↗

— Umberto Guidoni

#astronaut #design #end #first #flight

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it. ↗

— Donna Leon

#anyone #around #best #better #dishonest

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans. ↗

— Susan Lucci

#both #descent #different #different backgrounds #extremely

What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian. ↗

— Mack McLarty

#house #italian #machiavelli #needs #original

Groaning, he gripped his fists in the wild stuff. “Contessa.God, Contessa.” She straightened, changing the angle, changing the pleasure. She shook her hair back and undulated. She was a contessa.A princess.No,a queen. ↗

— Christie Ridgway

#italian #love #mafia #queen #change

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#inferno #italian-medieval-poetry #lustful #passion #reason

Italians have no sense of the dramatic. ↗

— Jose Carreras

#italians #sense

Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German. ↗

— Victoria de los Angeles

#baroque #french #german #i #i do

I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger. ↗

— Edmond About

#been #conversation #correspondence #danger #enlightened

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#few #humane #humanists #italian #really