Cineribus Quotes & Sayings

Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has burned to the ground. The city's flag acknowledges as much. Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes. — Charlie LeDuff

Speramus meliora; resurgret cineribus. We hope for better things; it will rise from the ashes, — Jeffrey Eugenides

Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Stoics define wisdom to be conducted by reason, and folly nothing else but the being hurried by passion, lest our life should otherwise have been too dull and inactive, that creator, who out of clay first tempered and made us up, put into the composition of our humanity more than a pound of passions to an ounce of reason; and reason he confined within the narrow cells of the brain, whereas he left passions the whole body to
range in.
Farther, he set up two sturdy champions to stand
perpetually on guard, that reason might make no assault,
surprise, nor inroad ; anger, which keeps its station in
the fortress of the heart ; and lust, which like the signs
Virgo and Scorpio, rules the appetites and passions. — Desiderius Erasmus

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability. — Patrick Lencioni

Contemplation + action = breakthrough — Lada Ray

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends. — Lord Chesterfield

Looking down, she became aware of the water, which was covered with a film of calcinous hard-water particles of dirt and soap, and of the body that was sitting in it, somehow no longer quite her own. All at once she was afraid that she was dissolving, coming apart layer by layer like a piece of cardboard in a gutter puddle. — Margaret Atwood

Hold on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it. — Earl G. Graves, Sr.

I want money; I just don't want that money lying around. — Nathan Kirsh

Strong-willed heart, always makes me feel so touched.
It reminds me about some 'fall and rise again' in my life. — Toba Beta

The first condition of success in magick is purity of purpose. — Aleister Crowley

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA. — Narendra Modi

If you admit your fear to yourself and to him, then maybe this time you can face it instead of running away.' Even as he spoke the words to her, they hit him in the gut. He could dole out advice. But he wasn't great at following it. He'd been running away from his past for ten years. — Jody Hedlund

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. — John Stuart Mill

Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had. — Paul Engle