Hortere Quotes & Sayings

The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
[Lat., Quem neque gloria neque pericula excitant, nequidquam hortere; timor animi auribus officit.] — Sallust

The moment has been waiting the way the top step of the stairs waits for the sleepwalker. — Jeanette Winterson

The Yoruba religion is the science of allowing God to flow through you, so that each breath becomes a prayer, and as God breathes, you breathe. — Tobe Melora Correal

I want to look good when people see me. — Christina Aguilera

Ah, my dear; and I shall never be happy unless I can open the windows! — Edith Wharton

I think what's fun about the fairytales is just seeing what everybody interprets them as, which comes from the different directors and what they want to do with them. — Colleen Atwood

You took a life and the theft went unpunished. God didn't strike you down. The sky didn't fall. The morning after, you turned on the faucet and water still came out ... It was still good when you raised your arm for a cab and one came towards you out of the flow like magic. You did things that were supposed to end you and found they were only things that changed you. It was a disappointment and a revelation and a bereavement and a new thrilling nudity. It was the basic prosaic obscenity: You kept going. — Glen Duncan