Eccomi Translation Quotes & Sayings

I've been trying to write. I also spent a lot of time on different campuses, in conversation, helping other writers. That's what I do: I teach them writing. — Junot Diaz

What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life. — George Gamow

Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness. — Petrarch

Doing a job badly and then getting someone in to sort it out can be much more expensive than getting someone in to do the job properly in the first place. — Sarah Beeny

But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows. — Immanuel Kant

If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others. — Eckhart Tolle

Mathic architects were helpless when it came to walls. Pillars they could do. Arches they were fine with. Vaults, which were just three-dimensional arches, they knew everything about. But ask them to construct a simple wall and they would go to pieces. Where anyone else in the world would construct a wall, they'd fill in the space with a system of arches and tracery. When people complained about wind, vermin, and other things that would be kept out of a normal building by walls, they might be troubled to fill up a vacancy with a stained-glass window. But we hadn't got round to putting all of those in yet. On a windy and rainy day it made buildings like this hellish. But on a day like this one it was fine because you could always see. As we scaled the flights of the southwestern tower we had views down into the Mynster, and out over the concent. — Neal Stephenson

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life. — David Coverdale

Once they're both gone, your parents' house instantly turns into a museum. — Christopher Buckley

The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety. — Grimes

Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just. — Henry Vaughan

You can graph human evolution, which is mostly a straight line, but we do get better and change over time, and you can graph technological evolution, which is a line that's going straight up. They are going to intersect each other at some point, and that's happening now. — Daniel H. Wilson

When a court officer suggested quarantine for Nerissa, she grabbed the man's pen and jammed it into the back of his hand, screaming that he was a Crimson Guard witch come to remove her memories and replace them with bird-song.
They decided to skip quarantine after that. — Caitlin Kittredge