Cogitationes Quotes & Sayings

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.
[Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Now, sorry about that kill-on-sight business. — Rick Riordan

You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings, you know, pending where the show was being held. You did submit work to be accepted. Once you were accepted that was it. You did your own selection of what went in. — Lee Krasner

Consider all the inanimate matter in the universe, all the dumb atoms, all the mindless molecules, all the oblivious dust grains and pebbles and rocks and iceballs and worlds and stars, all the unthinking galaxies and superclusters, wheeling through the oblivious time-haunted megaparsecs of the cosmic supervoid.
In all that immensity, she had somehow contrived to BE a human being, a microscopically tiny, cosmically insignificant bundle of information-processing systems, wired to a mind more structurally complex than the Milky Way itself, maybe even more complex than the rest of the *whole damned universe*! — Alastair Reynolds

At school, I would read the City pages before I read the sports pages. — Lloyd Dorfman

And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell. — Wilfred Owen

As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too. — Harry Connick Jr.

I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer! — Friedrich Nietzsche

It's odd to see a black person painting his nails in Miami, especially in the hip-hop community. — SpaceGhostPurrp

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.' — Jonah Hill

God is enough! All religion is enfolded for me now in these three words. — Hannah Whitall Smith

The worst job in the whole world must be recycling toilet paper. — Chuck Palahniuk

Some of the highlanders considered the true Christmas to be on January fourteenth. Old Christmas, they called it, believing it was the day the magi visited the Christ child. — Ron Rash

There is not a moment but preys upon you, - and upon all around you, not a moment in which you do not yourself become a destroyer. The most innocent walk deprives of life thousands of poor insects: one step destroys the fabric of the industrious ant, and converts a little world into chaos. No: it is not the great and rare calamities of the world, the floods which sweep away whole villages, the earthquakes which swallow up our towns, that affect me. My heart is wasted by the thought of that destructive power which lies concealed in every part of universal nature. Nature has formed nothing that does not consume itself, and every object near it: so that, surrounded by earth and air, and all the active powers, I wander on my way with aching heart; and the universe is to me a fearful monster, for ever devouring its own offspring. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To be young was to be more closely rooted to the thing that forms you, — Rachel Kushner

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and if one of the team cannot handle the forces, everybody is going to suffer. A ritual lodge is no place for the well-meaning ineffectual. — Dion Fortune