Lacunas Quotes & Sayings

A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man ... stops learning at fourteen or so. — Edward P. Jones

Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse. — James Dean

For it is unknown what is the real nature of the soul, whether it be born with the bodily frame or be infused at the moment of birth, whether it perishes along with us, when death separates the soul and body, or whether it visits the shades of Pluto and bottomless pits, or enters by divine appointment into other animals.
[Lat., Ignoratur enim, quae sit natura animai;
Nata sit, an contra nascentibus insinuetur;
Et simul intereat nobiscum, morte diremta,
An tenebras Orci visat, vastasque lacunas:
An pecudes alias divinitus insinuet se.] — Lucretius

We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside, because we're inside. God forbid something like a cockroach comes inside, or some dust. — Diane Ackerman

Killing time is not an easy job — Haruki Murakami

Vladimir Putin was awarded an advanced degree by the St. Petersburg Mining Institute with the help of a dissertation that, as two Brookings researchers discovered, included sixteen stolen pages - and, remarkably, not a single set of quotation marks. — Evan Osnos

The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation. — Kenneth E. Iverson

Prayer mirrors the gospel. In the gospel, the Father takes us as we are and gives us his gift of salvation. In prayer, the Father receives us as we are because of Jesus and gives us his gift of help. — Paul E. Miller

Nobody wants to be nothing. But that's the greatest thing in the world to be. — Marty Rubin

Change takes time. It takes time for the seeds to begin growing within, time to understand and process, time for the growth to mature, and time for the old self to die and fall away. — Bryant McGill

I open the curtains in my office and see people out there, some walking and holding hands without having to worry about the consequences. And I can't show my love, — Paulo Coelho

Vision lifts you up. It makes you smile a secret smile because you know that you have something very special to share. What is your vision? — Debbie Ford

But Sales + Customers = Nothing Broken is a formula for corporate cyanide. — Kevin Ashton

Leaves lift trees. — Larry Good

The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower. — Oleg Cassini

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely. — Frank McCourt

You are safe inside your mind. No one can reach you there. — Stephenie Meyer