Licebit Quotes & Sayings

Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love? — Pearl S. Buck

The song instantly insisted it'd never existed. — David Mitchell

Wars break things; they break stories. — Anthony Marra

It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall.
[Lat., Delere licebit
Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.] — Horace

One of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance ... I now realize that this feeling inevitably takes possession of one in the bitter struggle for equality. Indeed, I share it. Yet I wonder how we can expect total acceptance to step full grown from the womb of prejudice, with no embryo or infancy or childhood stages. — Sarah-Patton Boyle

I was scheduled to visit good old 050 but our doughty Doc Fraiser's put an end to that dream. — Karen Miller

7The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. 8Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God. — Anonymous

I am satisfied that a happy marriage is not so much a matter of romance as it is an anxious concern for the comfort and well-being of one's companion.
-Gordon B. Hinckley — Gordon B. Hinckley

I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned. — Reinhold Niebuhr

Is the whole world doomed to emotional trauma? — Helen Fielding

The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence - Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse or a boon. — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

In our lives, we need some hope to be able to proceed to the next ladder, without it, we're failures. — Auliq Ice

[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken.
The most terrible thing, though, was the fear that the wall could never be breached, that in his heart Alai was glad of the separation, and was ready to be Ender's enemy. For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now fragile and insubstantial; from the moment we are not together, Alai is a stranger, for he has a life now that will be no part of mine, and that means that when I see him we will not know each other. — Orson Scott Card

Shadows were too black, and when a breeze stirred the trees, the shadows changed in a disquieting way. — Stephen King

Torn between violence and disillusionment, I seem to myself a terrorist who, going out in the street to perpetrate some outrage, stops on the way to consult Ecclesiastes or Epictetus. — Emil Cioran

But no, I had a test in Calculus. I flunked the test, badly. It was as though my brain didn't want to solve for the rate of acceleration ... — Robyn Schneider