Cincinnatus Society Quotes & Sayings

My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt. — Fernando Pessoa

You're thinking too much. Try being in the moment. It'll amaze you. — Nora Roberts

I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute. — Richard Stallman

Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul. — Maurice Maeterlinck

There's a lot of things you need to get across this universe. Warp drive ... wormhole refractors ... You know the thing you need most of all? You need a hand to hold. — The Doctor

A good coach improves your game. A great coach improves your life. — Michael Josephson

The class's favorite
book was Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading. In this novel, Nabokov differentiates
Cincinnatus C., his imaginative and lonely hero, from those around him through his
originality in a society where uniformity is not only the norm but also the law. — Azar Nafisi

We set our own limits on love. Some of us bind our hearts like Chinese women bind their feet. The binding is painful at first but eventually you get used to it and the pain goes away. The saddest part of all is that by binding yourself to the choices you make, you forget that there was ever another way to live. — Kate McGahan

Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary officers. That name came from Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer and general. — Bill Dedman

I didn't say anything. Greta always knew how to make me lose my words. — Carol Rifka Brunt

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. — Bruce Springsteen

A little mucus is nothing against the power of the Lord. — Christopher Moore

And that better be the only wiener you put in your mouth. We do not give blow jobs so that boys will like us! Claire roars, and Connor nearly chokes on his beer — Jessica Spotswood

If you lose, you can't lead. If you don't lead, you're irrelevant. Winning is what it's all about in politics. — Lionel Sosa