Mordants History Quotes & Sayings

Argus, you are fallen, and the light in all your lamps is utterly put out: one hundred eyes, one darkness all the same! — Ovid

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. - WILL ROGERS — David Allen

The issue for me is American competitiveness, and how do we best create a climate here that allows international capital to come to these shores to create jobs. — Vito Fossella

I may be old but I'm not dead. — Christie Walker Bos

Under the new conditions of perfect comfort and security, that restless energy, that with us is strength, would become weakness. — H.G.Wells

It was always assumed that I would go to college. — Paul D. Boyer

In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the cause, there is no rule or 'law'. It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, for-each-other, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we project and mix this symbol world into things as if it existed 'in itself', we act once more as we have always acted- mythologically. — Friedrich Nietzsche

When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow. — C. G. Jung

119[118] * Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD! 2Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, 3who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! 4You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. 5O that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! 6Then I shall not be put to shame, having my eyes fixed on all your commandments. 7I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous ordinances. 8I will observe your statutes; O forsake me not utterly! 9How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. — Anonymous

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is. — Simon Hoggart

I was definitely nervous turning up on my first day to shoot with Woody Allen. — Ashley Madekwe

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility! — Soren Kierkegaard