Catullus Poems Quotes & Sayings

And then he came, and pulled her petals off one by one, forcing her to surround herself with thorns to survive. But he missed one petal. And she guards it with a tiger's ferocity. — Sara Wolf

My husband is not running for the presidency, neither are my children, neither is our business, neither are our foster children ... — Michele Bachmann

Therefore we didn't talk of genuine things. — Saul Bellow

It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary. — Pankaj Patel

You always hold a piece of yourself back, Annith. For all your love and affection and kindness, there is always a part of yourself that you withhold from others. — Robin LaFevers

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it. — Madeleine L'Engle

It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview. — John Hawkes

So you've made a few bad decisions. So have I. So has Elias. So has everyone attempting to do something difficult. That doesn't mean that you give up, you fool. Do you understand? — Sabaa Tahir

All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic. Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity, manage to conquer ever obstacle, make impossible possible. Even when winning's illogical, losing is still far from optional. — T.I.

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day." — Peter Brodie

There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate. — Ed Koch

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

I have lost you, my brother
And your death has ended
The spring season
Of my happiness,
our house is buried with you
And buried the laughter that you taught me.
There are no thoughts of love nor of poems
In my head
Since you died. — Catullus

I hate and love. And why, perhaps you'll ask.
I don't know: but I feel, and I'm tormented. — Catullus

When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen. — A.A. Milne

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness. — Margaret Heffernan

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success. — Michael Crawford

Why do tyrants understand the dangers of a democratic imagination more than our policy makers appreciate its necessity? — Azar Nafisi