Jacta Quotes & Sayings

It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I think about the sound the waves made against the walls of the lifeboat. A hushing sort of whisper that I'd eventually found comforting.
It had become, for me, the reckoning of death. — Carrie Ryan

I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true. — Bertrand Russell

I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture. — Peter Singer

The height of strategy, is to attack your opponent's strategy. — Sun Tzu

I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life. — Bob Marley

If we had never seen fishes, we should be at a loss to understand how any living beings could exist In the sea. — Allan Kardec

Let the die be cast.
[Lat., Jacta alea esto; or, jacta esa alea.) — Suetonius