Orbis Quotes & Sayings

Their books are also different. Works of fiction contain a single plot, with all its imaginable permutations. Those of a philosophical nature invariably include both the thesis and the antithesis, the rigorous pro and con of a doctrine. A book which does not contain its counterbook is considered incomplete. — Jorge Luis Borges

I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair share of business prosperity. But it either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anybody can get any benefit from it. — Theodore Roosevelt

A little truth seasons a lie like salt. — Jacqueline Carey

If you were called to gallop like the horse, never end up hopping like the frog. Rise up for greatness. — Israelmore Ayivor

Fex urbis, lex orbis" (The dregs of the city, the law of the earth), from Les Miserables, attributed to St. Jerome — Victor Hugo

A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away. — David Whyte

Orba (feminine), the Latin word for orphaned, parentless, childless, widowed. There was a time when I believed there was loss that could not be defined, that language had not caught up to death's enormity. But it has. Orbus, orba, orbum, orbi, orbae, orborum, orbo, orbis... — Jacqueline Woodson

Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem. — Walter Raleigh

A bad system will beat a good person every time. — W. Edwards Deming

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence. — Howard Dean

The term 'fell in love' is apt, because it implies there is pain in the discovery. I didn't 'land softly in love'. — N.B. Roberts

No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same. — Jay Asher

In all things there is a kind of law of cycles.
[Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.] — Tacitus

Be less stupid or I'll fucking kill you, — S.M. Reine