Metuentia Quotes & Sayings

Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept in cedar oil to latest times, to leave behind him rhymes that dread neither herrings nor frankincense.
[Lat., An erit, qui velle recuset
Os populi meruisse? et cedro digna locutus
Linquere, nec scombros metuentia carmina nec thus.] — Aulus Persius Flaccus

It does get frustrating having the cameras on you all the time, because if you make mistakes, then the whole world knows about it. Like, it's not just your family and friends, it's everyone. Sometimes I'll watch myself on TV and ask myself, What am I doing, I am the biggest geek. My friends will call me and say, "OMG. Have you seen that commercial of you, you look like such a nerd." — Miley Cyrus

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite. — Willie Nelson

It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally seek, but in a strong determination and keen desire to please God in all things, and to promote His glory. — Teresa Of Avila

I hadn't understood funeral pyres before, but now I do. It's ghastly to burn someone you love but watching the smoke going into the sky, I think that's rather beautiful now. And I wish Tess could be up in the sky. Somewhere with color and light and air. — Rosamund Lupton

The touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil — Robin McKinley

What 'Floating Worlds' does draw on is Holland's artistry in bringing the past to life in her historical fiction and depicting the people who inhabited that past. — Pamela Sargent

Bad guys are so much fun to play because you can go as far and as wacky as you want. — Joel Gretsch

God plans every sacred purpose for a sacred time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Remember that you are much different now than you were an hour ago, Ceony. Before you merely read about magic; now you have it. Denying it won't make you return to ordinary. — Charlie N. Holmberg

I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined. — Andre Dubus

I feel vulnerable when I am underprepared. This applies to underpreparedness with just about anything, especially work. — Amanda Schull