Festina Quotes & Sayings

Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the Dominion histories make them out to be. Though clearly they were imperfect."
"I don't deny that they were imperfect," Julian said in a distant voice. "I'm not uncritical of the Secular Ancients, Adam. They had all sorts of vices, and they committed one sin for which I can never bring myself to entirely forgive them."
"What sin is that?"
"They evolved into us," he said. — Robert Charles Wilson

I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create many words out of one character. — Lisa See

It felt better to forgive him. I hardly wanted him to know, that it could be so easy, just to let him off the hook. I wouldn't have to carry him then. — Louise Wareham Leonard

Without imagination, nothing is dangerous. — Georgette Leblanc

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it. — David Antin

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. — Howard Zinn

We don't know history. We only know what has been written about it. — Marty Rubin

Festina lente. You know what that means?"
Hurry slowly."
Bene." He smiled.
-A Good & Happy Child — Justin Evans

Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Festina lente may well be his motto — Bram Stoker

Festina lente. Make haste slowly. — James Rollins

When you doubt the existence of God, you essentially doubt your own existence because we were all made in the image of God. Genesis 1:27. — Felix Wantang

A few shy stars and a pale moon had already appeared in the sky, ready to take up reign from the sun that had abdicated for the night. — Irina Shapiro

I am not religious in any sense; in fact, I consider myself an atheist. — Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar

God is forgotten, the mighty dollar has taken his place and the mechanic cannot ease the troubled soul. The road is closed. Under circumstances such as these America only increases speed. America will not stop for anything, it wants to get on, go on, forge a way ahead. Should America turn back? Absolutely not! It simply increases the pace a hundredfold, acts the hurricane and whips life up to a white heat. In Europe nowadays we have the word Americanism, the old days had festina lente. — Knut Hamsun

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. — Joseph Addison

I quickly pulled away and walked to the edge of the water. Staring up at the darkened sky through tear filled eyes, I awaited the inevitable storm. With a heavy heart, I took in a long, sad breath. The time had come for me to end this. No delaying any longer, no excuses - it was now or never.
A searing pain tore through my chest. Though my heart had already made its choice long ago, the inevitable pain of having to let him go was something I had avoided until now. But I could no longer afford to be selfish and keep them both. It wasn't fair to either of them and I loved them far too much to continue putting my own wants and desires first. — Christi Anna

I do not want to know what you will hope for. I want to know what you will work for. I do not want your sympathy for the needs of humanity. I want your muscle. As the wagon driver said when they came to a long, hard hill: 'Them that's going on with us, get out and push. Them that ain't, get out of the way'. — Robert Fulghum

He was the kind of guy that made a woman want to rip his shirt open and watch the buttons scatter along with her inhibitions. — Sylvia Day