Cessante Ratione Quotes & Sayings

I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days. — Bernie Worrell

In the game of life, when the final buzzer sounds, the only stat you carry with you is the number of assists you made. — Michael Bloomberg

When he noticed that pro basketball stars were far less likely to be called for traveling than lesser players, he didn't just holler at the refs. He stopped watching basketball altogether; the injustice of it killed his interest in the sport. — Michael Lewis

'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as 'love' and as 'guv' - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while. — James Fenton

When I meditate, I clearly see that God is already seated inside my heart. — Sri Chinmoy

Only when it rains. and sometimes, too, when i remember. — Lauren Oliver

By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude. It cannot claim the power to redistribute money or property nor to force reluctant citizens to perform acts of charity against their will. Government is created by the people. No individual possesses the power to take another's wealth or to force others to do good, so no government has the the right to do such things either. The creature cannot exceed the creator. — Ezra Taft Benson

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. — John Kenneth Galbraith

The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. — Mark Twain

My career never went like anyone else's, so I never followed anyone. — Cyndi Lauper

The knockouts did not change me as a fighter. I was more of a boxer as a heavyweight. The problem was when I came back to light heavyweight, I lost all of the muscle and I lost all of the energy. I was going for the knockout because I didn't want to go the whole 12 rounds because my body was tired. I couldn't understand why my body was tired and it didn't dawn on me until now. — Roy Jones Jr.

A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise. — Aesop

Some people are uncomfortable with silences. Not me. I've never cared much for call and response. Sometimes I will think of something to say and then I ask myself: is it worth it? And it just isn't. — Miranda July

A registered trademark of a British company that makes equipment for playing table tennis, the real name of — Joey Green

She did not know yet how sometimes people keep parts of themselves hidden and secret, sometimes wicked and unkind parts, but often brave or wild or colorful parts, cunning or powerful or even marvelous, beautiful parts, just locked up away at the bottom of their hearts. They do this because they are afraid of the world and of being stared at, or relied upon to do feats of bravery or boldness. And all of those brave and wild and cunning and marvelous and beautiful parts they hid away and left in the dark to grow strange mushrooms - and yes, sometimes those wicked and unkind parts, too - end up in their shadow. — Catherynne M Valente