Nocere Terence Quotes & Sayings

When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder. — D.H. Lawrence

Is this, Miriam wonders, what they call the march of history? And even if she doesn't fully understand, it doesn't mean she can't appreciate the need, the periodic need for some people to resort to gasoline, rags, and matches. Doesn't it always come to this? Isn't history as much about tearing things down as it is about building things up? — Peter Orner

I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee. — James Longstreet

She thought for the first time, with happiness: perhaps I have a life in people's minds when I am not there to be seen or talked to. — Graham Greene

Yesterday at this time, I didn't even know her. — Jennifer Niven

Maybe I just have high self-esteem, but I have a lot that I really enjoy. — John Mulaney

The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will. — Andy Warhol

Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy. — Seth Godin

I intend to lay a foundation that will revolutionize the whole world. — Joseph Smith Jr.

It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion. — Jack London

When I look back upon my early days I am stirred by the thought of the number of people whom I have to thank for what they gave me or for what they were to me. At the same time I am haunted by an oppressive consciousness of the little gratitude I really showed them while I was young. How many of them have said farewell to life without having made clear to them what it meant to me to receive from them so much kindness or so much care! Many a time have I, with a feeling of shame, said quietly to myself over a grave the words which my mouth ought to have spoken to the departed, while he was still in the flesh. — Albert Schweitzer