Occidit Quotes & Sayings

We don't know if we're dancing on the show until a couple of days before the show starts, let alone who their partners are before they meet them. — Lindsay Arnold

God our Father and His Son Jesus Christ, with Their perfect foreknowledge, already recommended every one of you to fill your mortal probation during the most decisive period in the history of the world. — Sheri L. Dew

It is an unfortunate thing for the Christian to be melancholy. If there is any man in the world that has a right to have a bright, clear face and a flashing eye, it is the man whose sins are forgiven him, who is saved with God's salvation. — Charles Spurgeon

For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain? — Joyce Carol Oates

Well, well. IM (and correspondence GM) Douglas Bryson once told me that he almost never plays a game that flows smoothly from start to finish; there is always a "moment" of sorts where someone misses a big defensive opportunity or the nature of the position changes more than one might reasonably expect. This was such a "moment". — Jonathan Rowson

You don't see many of these white anti-abortion women volunteering to have any black fetuses transplanted into their uterus's, do you? No, you don't see them adopting a whole lot of crack babies, do you? No, that might be something Christ would do. — George Carlin

But tonight, because Rome had fallen and Felix was dead, because of Valerius's shame, the empty hut seemed horribly lonely, and there was a small aching need in him for somebody to notice, even if they were not glad, that he had come home. — Rosemary Sutcliff

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time. — Seneca The Younger

I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place. — Lisa Unger

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. — Christian Nestell Bovee

To dream is the ultimate dare, is it not? — Gayle Forman

...by tragic historical coincidence a period of abysmal under-educating in literacy has coincided with this unexpected explosion of global self-publishing. Thus people who don't know their apostrophe from their elbow are positively invited to disseminate their writings to anyone on the planet stupid enough to double-click and scroll. — Lynne Truss

In our age, the problems that needs to be solved are growing in number and business of life is overpowering — Sunday Adelaja

Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit; occidentis telum est.

A sword is never a killer; it is a tool in the killers hand. — Maggie Stiefvater

I'm neurotic. I complain all the time. I'm a workaholic. And I'm never satisfied. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

We owe it to our kids to inform them and train them how to think, not what to think. — James Randi