Onustum Quotes & Sayings

Then the house had been boldly planned with a ball-room, so that, instead of squeezing through a narrow passage to get to it (as at the Chiverses') one marched solemnly down a vista of enfiladed drawing-rooms (the sea-green, the crimson and the bouton d'or), seeing from afar the many-candled lustres reflected in the polished parquetry, and beyond that the depths of a conservatory where camellias and tree-ferns arched their costly foliage over seats of black and gold bamboo. — Edith Wharton

I am aware that what
the body does for love
is sometimes not.
I celebrate reversals.
I watch a funeral
somewhere at sea. — Jerome Rothenberg

The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath.
[Lat., Quin corpus onustum
Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque praegravat una
Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.] — Horace

I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes. — Jane Fonda

He who stands by his heart has God in him. Our conscience is what unites us with God. — Suzy Kassem

Many Nigerians believe that Babangida 'institutionalized corruption', yet few admit their own complicity in creating the situation where corruption became the norm. The citizenry are simultaneously victims, accomplices and active participants in their own corrupt downfall. Corruption in Nigeria is not just an offshoot of collapsed social and governmental institutions, nor is it the result of a hostile economic environment. The roots go much deeper and are more symptomatic of a residual breakdown of Nigerian societal values and morality. It is the result of a nationwide refusal to condemn dishonesty... While the government must take blame for not cracking down on corruption, the public deserves its share of blame for encouraging it, and letting the government get away with it. — Max Siollun

It was very quiet at the hotel, as if there had been a death in the family. When you have quit the Tour, nobody really knows what to say or do. ( ... ) Everything I'd previously achieved meant nothing; all I was now was a pro rider who couldn't finish the Tour de France. — David Millar

Focus your intention on your dreams, you can wave magic when you set your heart and mind to it — Miranda Kerr

Pouring breakfast cereal into a bowl, he saw his life crashing down in smoking ruins. — Meg Rosoff

I don't wanna gain the whole world and lose my soul. — TobyMac

There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just crying about something terrible that has happened, but a crying for all of the terrible things that have happened, not just to you but to everyone you know and to everyone you don't know and even the people you don't want to know, a crying that cannot be diluted by a brave deed or a kind word, but only by someone holding you as your shoulders shake and your tears run down your face. — Lemony Snicket

I could fuck you senseless right here, right now, and give the women watching orgasms. That, sweetheart, is how good I am. — Tabatha Vargo

I love the way the American trade magazines never give anybody a bad review because they're afraid the advertising will be taken out. It's so hysterical. — Elton John

I felt this was my duty ... to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my loins and transform it ... into light. — Nikos Kazantzakis

I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet. — Travis Barker