Brevity Latin Quotes & Sayings

I don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story. — Mort Sahl

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearences he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips. Wang Lung looked at the pictured man in horror and with increasing interest. — Pearl S. Buck

If you want things to change to different things, you must think different thoughts. And that simply requires finding unfamiliar ways of approaching familiar subjects. Ask and it is given. — Esther Hicks

As a runner, you have to face the truth about yourself on a regular basis, and it makes you more honest. You can't pretend to be faster than you are. You can't pretend that you are better prepared than you are. You cannot pretend to be a runner, you actually have to run. — John Bingham

Regardless of where you're pitching, regardless of what goes on before or after your game, you still have to be ready. — Greg Maddux

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. — Christopher Marlowe

To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter. — Ernst Mach

My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning, and may be many; but you can overcome and outlive them all if you learn to feel the strength and tenderness of your Heavenly Father as you do that of your earthly one. The more you love and trust Him, the nearer you will feel to Him, and the less you will depend on human power and wisdom. His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness, and strength. Believe this heartily, and go to God with all your little cares, and hopes, and sins, and sorrows, as freely and confidingly as you come to your mother. — Louisa May Alcott

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel? — Thomas Hardy

See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly. — Homer

When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am. — Barbra Streisand