Fecit Quotes & Sayings

Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we speak their grammar we get feathers in our mouth. It's worth it. What pleasure to phrase an idea, even in child's words, slowly, and sail it across the gulf in another language to a different-speaking human being! — Richard Bach

In every human undertaking there is something which is not in our power and does not come within our calculations; the wish to win this for oneself is the origin of the gods. "Primus in orbe Deos fecit timor" is an old and true saying of Petronius. — Arthur Schopenhauer

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. — Paulo Coelho

Maybe we should stop asking how do we get people to pay for music, and start asking how do we let them pay for music? from Ted Talk — Amanda Palmer

Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love. — Paulo Coelho

One withers, another grows. — Mitch Albom

I certainly hope to be a great publisher, and if people want to love me, too, that's even better. — Katharine Weymouth

Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble. — Paulo Coelho

Everything depends on which path you take. — Paulo Coelho

The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind. — Swami Vivekananda

Legally, Moosbrugger's case could be summed up in-a sentence. He
was one of those borderline cases in law and forensic medicine
known even to the layman as a case of diminished responsibility.
These unfortunates typically suffer not only substandard health
but also have a substandard disease, Nature has a peculiar prefer-
ence for producing such people in droves. Natura non fecit saltus,
she makes no jumps but prefers gradual transitions; even on the
grand scale she keeps the world in a transitional state between imbe-
cility and sanity. — Robert Musil

And anything that might hurt me would just make me stronger in the end. — Elizabeth Eulberg

Sometimes you have to do things when sad things happen. — Mitch Albom

Fear in the world first created the gods.
[Lat., Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.] — Statius

Scenery without solace is meaningless. — Mitch Albom

If some mystical occurrences happen to us, don't we "normally" and fearfully prefer to call them strange coincidences? Or try to persuade ourselves it was only an indication of our overactive imagination? Aren't we "normally" closing our eyes and ears, refusing to face the truth? — Sahara Sanders

Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us. — Chris Hardwick

Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path. — Paulo Coelho

What is our praise or pride but to imagine excellence and try to make it? What does it say over the door of heaven; but, homo (sapiens) fecit? — Richard Wilbur

I've had enough of this destiny bullshit, OK? — Giselle Simlett

So many pickles, so little time. — M.P.

When I think of antiquity, the detail that frightens me is that those hundreds of millions of slaves on whose backs civilization rested generation after generation have left behind them no record whatever. We do not even know their names. In the whole of Greek and Roman history, how many slaves' names are known to you? I can think of two, or possibly three. One is Spartacus and the other is Epictetus. Also, in the Roman room at the British Museum there is a glass jar with the maker's name inscribed on the bottom, 'FELIX FECIT'. I have a mental picture of poor Felix (a Gaul with red hair and a metal collar round his neck), but in fact he may not have been a slave; so there are only two slaves whose names I definitely know, and probably few people can remember more. The rest have gone down into utter silence. — George Orwell

Some donkeys have amazing luck. — George Bernard Shaw

Life is an act of faith. — Paulo Coelho

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it. — Navjot Singh Sidhu

You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others. — Paulo Coelho

Right, from now on, whenever you want to find out about something, plunge straight in. — Paulo Coelho

What we see is not always what exists. — Paulo Coelho

There are no random acts. — Mitch Albom

I fear the many faces, many personalities in me. Sometimes I fail to understand my self and become deceived by my various selves. — Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God. — Paulo Coelho

Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect. — Paulo Coelho

Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits. — Paulo Coelho

And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
[Lat., Itidemque ut saepe jam in multis locis,
Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni.] — Plautus

Venice seems like a wonderful city in which to die a slow and alcoholic death, or to lose a loved one, or to lose the murder weapon with which the loved one was lost in the first place. — Elizabeth Gilbert

That was the glory of man - to nurture and maintain knowledge. — Paulo Coelho

Why do so many people chose to spend their whole life destroying paths they didn't even want to follow, instead of following the one path that would lead them somewhere. — Paulo Coelho

Lost love is still love. — Mitch Albom

What is outside is harder to change than what is inside. — Paulo Coelho