Acheruntis Quotes & Sayings

Republicans go to Sam's Club, Democrats go to Costco. — Gillian Flynn

The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
[Lat., Et metus ille foras praeceps Acheruntis agundus,
Funditis humanam qui vitam turbat ab imo,
Omnia suffuscans mortis nigrore, neque ullam
Esse voluptatem liquidam puramque relinquit.] — Lucretius

If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government, as dominant money-supplier, becomes free to create money costlessly and at will. As a result, this 'inflation' of the money supply destroys the value of the dollar or pound, drives up prices, cripples economic calculation, and hobbles and seriously damages the workings of the market economy. — Murray Rothbard

Develop the habit of initiating change. You'll be better prepared for whatever comes your way. — Gina Greenlee

When you lived on the wrong side of the law, information, however vague or apparently meaningless, was everything. It gave you leverage. And leverage was power. — Dougie Brimson

As Gazzaniga put it, these findings all suggest that the interpretive mechanism of the left hemisphere is always hard at work, seeking the meaning of events. It is constantly looking for order and reasons, even when there is none - which leads it continually to make mistakes. — David Eagleman

strengthening habitual patterns of suffering. We begin to see this more and more clearly, and we begin to realize that we can do something different. — Pema Chodron

Necessity knows no law. — Mark Twain

Food of Acheron. (Grave.)
[Lat., Pabulum Acheruntis.] — Plautus

Always stay one step a head, unless you're already there — Benny Bellamacina

I don't think art is in danger of dissolution or disappearance, and we don't trust enough in its ability and power to create critical consciousness as much as we think we do. — Fady Joudah