“it's just business nothing personal...”
Mario Puzo
а также некоторые другие выражения, которые мне нравятся. Это единственная книга, которую я пока не дочитал, не заснул...
“Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone”
“I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.”
“A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults”
“Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.”
“Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .”
“Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very "poetry of his soul".Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time.”
“Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.”
“You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.”
“The man with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.”
“I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.”
“Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.”
“Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.”
“Love is like the little red toy wagon you get for your Christmas or your sixth birthday. It makes you deliriously happy and you just can't leave it alone. But sooner or later the wheels come off. Then you leave it in a corner and forget it. Falling in love is great. Being in love is a disaster”
“He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful."
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Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important.”
“A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”
“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”
“What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.”
“Behind every great fortune, there is a crime. a”
“Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.”
“Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.”
“We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished-but if we falter in that loyalty we will all be condemned.”
“A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man”