Cujus Quotes & Sayings

of the hanged men were cut down, and the starosta — Vasiliy Bryukhov

An old adage warns: If you don't know your history, you will be forever condemned to repeat it. Likewise, if you don't know your science fiction, and heed its warnings, you could condemn the Earth to future catastrophe. — Kelly Steed

Gratitude is not a spiritual or moral dessert which we may take or push away according to the whims of the moment, and in either case without material consequences. Gratitude is the very bread and meat of spiritual and moral health, individually and collectively. What was the seed of disintegration that corrupted the heart of the ancient world beyond the point of divine remedy ... ? What was it but ingratitude? — Noel 'Razor' Smith

Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life, he should carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his community and his country, and thereby serve his children, his neighbours, his fellow men, and the cause of freedom. — David Lilienthal

A reasonable being should ask himself why - if chemicals can enter into plants, and plants be taken up into animals, and animals be taken into man - why man himself, who is the peak of visible creation, should be denied the privilege of being assimilated into a higher power? The rose has no right to say that there is no life above it and neither has man, who has a vast capacity and unconquerable yearning for eternal life and truth and love. — Fulton J. Sheen

I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering. — Diana Vreeland

My father taught me a good lesson: Don't get to low when things go wrong. And don't get too high when things are good. — Robert Parish

I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time. — Joe Manganiello

If you go exploring, you might find something that could hurt you."
"If one doesn't , one is not truly exploring — Jim Butcher

Cujus region, ejus rligio (Whoever's reign, his religion) ... He who owns the country owns the Church, and he that makes your laws for you has the right to make your religion for you. — Martin Luther

I was glad to see I had only witnessed Dad's death and not the end of his life, as the two I learned are barely related at all. — Jasper Fforde

You gotta learn to love when you're failing ... The embracing of that, the discomfort of failing in front of an audience, leads you to penetrate through the fear that blinds you. Fear is the mind killer. — Stephen Colbert

If you get your spirit and heart right, everything else flows from there. — Orrin Woodward

Heaven? I don't have an affinity with that place. — SebastiAn

It's like jumping backwards into a snowdrift and not knowing how deeply you're going to sink. — Tarryn Fisher

Look at her good, Lily," she said, "'cause you're seeing the end of something."
"I am?"
"Yes, you are, because as long as people have been on this earth, the moon has been a mystery to us. Think about it. She is strong enough to pull the oceans, and when she dies away, she always comes back again. My mama used to tell me Our Lady lived on the moon and that I should dance when her face was bright and hibernate when it was dark."
August stared at the sky a long moment and then, turning toward the house, said, "Now it won't ever be the same, not after they've landed up there and walked around on her. She'll be just one more science project. — Sue Monk Kidd