Illud Quotes & Sayings

You're cool Joe she told him, her voice weighty, as if she was bestowing a grave honor on him even though a blind person could sense his utter coolness. — Kristen Ashley

The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
[Lat., Nunquam aedepol temere tinniit tintinnabulum;
Nisi quis illud tractat aut movet, mutum est, tacet.] — Plautus

If you spend a thing you can not have it.
[Lat., Non tibi illud apparere si sumas potest.] — Plautus

I am not a hero. Life has not required it of me. — Geraldine Brooks

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. — Clarence Darrow

What's different? Sweat, risk, uncertainty, inconvenience. But also, awe. Pride. Something ineffably splendid and stirring. — Mary Roach

At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast such as Mahomet created a force capable of triumphing over the Graeco-Roman world; an obscure monk like Luther bathed Europe in blood. The voice of a Galileo or a Newton will never have the least echo among the masses. The inventors of genius hasten the march of civilization. The fanatics and the hallucinated create history. — Gustave Le Bon

Over the years, Steve has come to understand I need the clicker. He says it's my security blanket. — Brendan Shanahan

Know not what you know, and see not what you see.
[Lat., Etiam illud quod scies nesciveris;
Ne videris quod videris.] — Plautus

feel that, however steady a man is, if he has an unstable wife to whom he is devoted, then there is a corrosion at work on his own foundations. — Winston Graham

It's not okay, it's not all right. But if you just hold on, One more day, one more hour. It will be. It will be. — Jasinda Wilder

For society indeed of all sorts, except of course that of a few intimate friends, he had an unconquerable aversion. "I always did hate those people," he said, "and they always have hated and always will hate me. I am an Ihsmael by instinct as much as by accident of circumstances, but if I keep out of society I shall be less vulnerable than Ishmaels generally are. The moment a man goes into society, he becomes vulnerable all round. — Samuel Butler

Say it, woman."
"It. Woman."
"God, you're a pain. — Kristan Higgins