Lucerna Quotes & Sayings

I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing. — Giacomo Casanova

This time is given to me by God that I may live in it. It is not given to make something out of it, but given me to be stored away in eternity as my own. — Thomas Merton

There is always some sleight of hand going on in writing autobiography. So much has to be left out, especially things that might hurt or dismay people. But in a novel one can say everything. The novel is often autobiography distilled and / or transcended. — May Sarton

Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said good bye to me as though I was emigrating. — Thora Hird

Listen Noah, I've had two helpings of flaming bitch this morning. Satan himself wouldn't fuck with me right now ... — Sophie Monroe

This may play well in certain extreme right- and left-wing political circles. But such unrest exacts a huge price on U.S. credibility abroad in all the challenging arenas summarized here, and in others yet to emerge. Political cannibalism at home will severely undercut the authority and credibility of America's role in the world. It will exacerbate U.S. efforts to manage a range of existing security issues and new ones yet unimagined. — Graham T. Allison

Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker.
[Lat., Namque sub Aurora jam dormitante lucerna
Sommia quo cerni tempore vera solent.] — Ovid

I, um ... I'm not perfect. I have a little Buddha belly. — Kristen Ashley

Oh no, was I to be one of those girls who gets attacked by a jealous girlfriend? — Jenna Elizabeth Johnson

She knew, then, that it had not been hatred that had made him avoid her for so long. No, it had not been hatred at all. — L.J.Smith

Many of the Ten Commandments can still claim validity today. But the Fourth Commandment is diametrically opposed to the laws of psychology. It is imperative that there be general recognition of the fact that enforced "love" can do a very great deal of harm. People who were loved in childhood will love their parents in return. There is no need of a commandment to tell them to do so. Obeying a commandment can never be the basis for love. — Alice Miller

In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man. — Laozi

The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different from that of another city. He hears in each little brook a new melody, and to him the sound of wind in the treetops of different forests give a varying sound. — Max Heindel

I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now. — Dan Byrd

'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all. — Natalie Portman

We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible. — Gloria Steinem

I didn't want it to be this way."
"Yes, you did," she said, "because it is."
"I just want to be with someone normal," he said. "I just want to have a normal life."
"Excuse me," she said.
"You're a little crazy," he said. "You're too old to act the way you do. You've got to grow up. You've got to take care of yourdelf. I'm afraid for you. You can't think that people are going to take care of you all the time. — Candace Bushnell