Addicere Quotes & Sayings

Doing the easy thing makes you popular. Doing the hard thing makes you a leader. — Rick Warren

The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of Observations on material and obvious things. — Robert Hooke

Everything you felt, I felt it too — Jay McLean

Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it may not, and perhaps ought not to be supplied by prudence. — Jean De La Bruyere

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. — Ambrose Bierce

As long as it (an issue) remains invisible, it is guaranteed to remain insoluble. — Margaret Heffernan

The root of addict in latin is the word addicere, which means religious devotion. It was an attribute of beginning monks. There is an element in the book [Infinite Jest] in which various people are living out something that I think is true, which is that we all worship. We all have a religious impulse. We can choose, to an extent, what we worship, but the myth that we worship nothing and give ourselves away to nothing, simply sets ourselves up to give ourselves away to something different. For instance, pleasure or drugs or the idea of having a lot of money, being able to buy nice stuff. — David Foster Wallace

I'm going to hold on to what little I have, because I'm too insignificant to conquer the world. He — Paulo Coelho