Kedibone D Quotes & Sayings

The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards?
[Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam
Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam
Praemia se tollas.] — Juvenal

Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that. — Miuccia Prada

If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any field, and historical research becomes an idle, empty activity. — Justus Von Liebig

Never be afraid to be sexy! — Alysha Speer

If we unite, we can surmount any mountain and make things happen for the betterment of all. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

In all its beautiful, tragic fragility, there was still life. — Sara Gruen

I've always treasured empathy as the particular privilege of the invisible, the observers who are shy precisely because they sense so much--because it is overwhelming to say even a single word when you're sensitive to every last flicker of nuance in the room. — Leslie Jamison

When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil. — Saint Augustine

All men are partially buried in the grave of custom, and of some we see only the crown of the head above ground. Better are the physically dead, for they more lively rot. Even virtue is no longer such if it be stagnant. A man's life should be constantly as fresh as this river. It should be the same channel, but a new water every instant. — Henry David Thoreau

I know that sometimes these friends feel that they have been expelled from the ordinary world they lived in before and that they are now citizens of the Land of the Fucked. — Anne Lamott

It is a virtue, I came to believe long ago, not to make a meal out of one's emotional life. There's always enough work to do, not to mention that there's world enough outside. — Joseph Brodsky

What people don't understand about the Arctic is that this isn't just about those other people, those Eskimos that have nothing to do with us. The Arctic drives the climate of the whole globe. — Gretel Ehrlich