Mundus Novus Quotes & Sayings

Memory is a landscape watched from the window of a moving train. ( ... ) These things happen right before our very eyes, we know them to be real, but they're so far away we can't touch them. Some are so far, so very far away, and the train moving so fast, that we can't be sure any longer that they really did happen. Maybe we merely dreamed them? — Jose Eduardo Agualusa

Idleness is the great plague of India. — Mahatma Gandhi

Free time was the most precious time, when you should be doing what you loved, or at least slowing down enough to remember what made your life worthwhile and happy. — Amy Tan

There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward. — John Green

He knew that we gave constant lip service to the dictates of safety and howled like Christians condemned to the arena if any compromise were made of it. He knew we were seekers after ease, suspicious, egotistic, and stubborn to a fault. He also knew that none of us would have continued our careers unless we had always been, and still were, helpless before this opportunity to take a chance. — Ernest K. Gann

Despite deficit rains, we have been successful in bringing down the inflation down from double digits to 3-4% — Narendra Modi

The weird thing about rap is that you don't get compared in the same way that athletes do, even though it's probably the most competitive sport in music. In basketball, they look at a player and say: 'This guy was the best in his prime at this sport.' But in rap it's not until you're dead or retired that people think about it like that. — Chance The Rapper

Partying and dancing have never been my thing, but drinking I could do with reasonable familiarity and skills. I decided to begin there. — Vann Chow

We can't see in the dark. There is nothing to light the way, so we stumble. We grope around hoping to find our way safe and sound. But there is nothing to grasp onto, and in the dark we can't see those who could help us. — Quinn Loftis

There's something to be said about a girl who knows what she wants. One of my favorite girls to dress is Diane Kruger. It's always so easy with her. I know her body and what works. When it's right, it's not a lot of effort. — Jason Wu

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Be pissed at me 'cause I fucked you over. That's cool, you got a right, I fucked you over and it was a shit thing to do. — Kristen Ashley