Ignara Latin Quotes & Sayings

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life. — Chaim Potok

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes;
And when in act they cease, in prospect rise. — Alexander Pope

You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one. — Red Barber

I didn't pay a lot of attention as I should have in college. — Dan Quayle

There was no reason why he should not lift the veil aside.
Well, there was Lily. He could imagine his mother's face if he told her he was giving up meat and alcohol and going to live off the land and make sandals. Not to mention homogenic love. The veil might be thin, but in some cases it was insurmountable. — Damon Galgut

I'm different in the sense that every minute of every day, I change. I'm thinking. But the basic principles that have powered me forward are still there. They're not different. — Bill Ayers

I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I yearned to get better; I told myself I was getting better. In fact, the depression was still there, like a powerful undertow. Sometimes it grabbed me, yanked me under; other times, I swam free. — Tracy Thompson

America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception. — James Ellroy

I forget who I am and the world around me whenever I am in his arms. It's almost as if he holds some higher power which only someone like him can possess. His lips are like candy, and his tongue is like luscious, velvety chocolate. I am simply drunk on him. — Jaimie Roberts

The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot. — Criss Jami