Plautus And Terence Quotes & Sayings

Truly stupid wizards have the life expectancy of a glass hammer. — Terry Pratchett

What I want
is for you
to build a bridge.
A bridge that
connects these
two parts of my
life so I don't
have to choose
one or the other
I don't want to choose
Because the thing about
choices?
You get something
while you lose something else.
If you choose wrong
you risk losing
everything. — Lisa Schroeder

But that could not have been the main cause of the carnage, because in subsequent centuries the technology kept getting deadlier while the death toll came back to earth. Luard singles out religious passion as the cause: It was above all the extension of warfare to civilians, who (especially if they worshipped the wrong god) were frequently regarded as expendable, which now increased the brutality of war and the level of casualties. Appalling bloodshed could be attributed to divine wrath. The duke of Alva had the entire male population of Naarden killed after its capture (1572), regarding this as a judgement of God for their hard-necked obstinacy in resisting; just as Cromwell later, having allowed his troops to sack Drogheda with appalling bloodshed (1649), declared that this was a "righteous judgement of God." Thus by a cruel paradox those who fought in the name of their faith were often less likely than any to show humanity to their opponents in war. — Steven Pinker

Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

I love doing heightened reality stuff, and having fun with the characters I play, especially in a kind of darker way, which I don't get to do in 'Primeval' at all. — Andrew-Lee Potts

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness — Robert Muller

How can you fail a test you aren't allowed to prepare for? — Veronica Roth

We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle. Their point of view challenges us to examine the truth and to test their views ... and let us not comment on nor criticize writers of whom we have heard only second-hand, or third-hand without troubling to read their works for ourselves ... Don't be afraid of new ideas. — J. Oswald Sanders

In my experience," the Gray Man said, "the badasses are the most scared. I just avoid being inappropriately frightened. — Maggie Stiefvater