Nepot Quotes & Sayings

Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism: The right to criticize. The right to hold unpopular beliefs. The right to protest. The right of independent thought. — Margaret Chase Smith

I wished she was a plastic tag strip, easily discarded, the annoyance of her thrown to the floor to be stomped on. — Harlem Dae

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'. — Willa Cather

As it turned out, the story he told wasn't about doping; it was about power. It was about an ordinary guy who worked his way up to the top of an extraordinary world, who learned to play a shadowy chess match of strategy and information at the outermost edge of human performance. It was about a corrupt but strangely chivalrous world, where you would take any chemical under the sun to go faster, but wait for your opponent if he happened to crash. — Tyler Hamilton

Jerome says (Ep. ad Nepot. lii): Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being a nobody has become a celebrity. — Thomas Aquinas

Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul. — Maurice Maeterlinck

God, listen to the absurdity within us and raise us from the illusion! — Sorin Cerin

Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published. — Dick Bruna

Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others. — Madeleine L'Engle

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit. — Randy Pausch

It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself? — Terence Rattigan

Just because something is in the dark doesn't mean it won't shine. — Anonymous

Nine different people gathered and became like a family. To me, it is a very meaningful tie. — Im Yoona

The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence. — Olivier Theyskens