Oktavian Augusti Quotes & Sayings

The elderly are useless eaters. — Henry A. Kissinger

Everything new stalls because there is precedence for the old — Poul Henningsen

When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice. — Jim Yong Kim

victorious." "The headsman feels if the axe be[85] sharp." "Take care lest you be deceived." "Judge — Huber Gray Buehler

Have - have you got an appointment?' he said.
'I don't know,' said Carrot. 'Have we got an appointment?'
'I've got an iron ball with spikes on,' Nobby volunteered.
'That's a morningstar, Nobby.'
'Is it?'
'Yes,' said Carrot. 'An appointment is an engagement to see someone, while a morningstar is a large lump of metal used for viciously crushing skulls. It is important not to confuse the two, isn't it, Mr-?' He raised his eyebrows.
'Boffo, sir. But-'
'So if you could perhaps run along and tell Dr Whiteface we're here with an iron ball with spi- What am I saying? I mean, without an appointment to see him? Please? Thank you. — Terry Pratchett

Hello I'm Edward and you are? Bella sorry I didn't get a chance to introduce myself last week. — Stephenie Meyer

It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odd - uncanny and highly improbable. G. K. Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at a gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. — Alan W. Watts