Poesis Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

Nothing is stronger than Custom
(Fac tibi consuescat: nil adsuetudine maius) — Ovid

You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides. — Dennis Rodman

I enjoy playing it every time I step on the course. — Dustin Johnson

Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone. — Bob Dylan

As for the coyote, he was nothing like his cartoon icon. He was sleek, fast, healthy and apparently without an anvil or Acme product of any kind. — Doug Fine

I am a stranger in all countries. — Xenophon

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. — Abba Eban

To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into? — Anne Michaels

Anyone who knows anything about journalism knows that reporters are rarely in a position to investigate anything. They lack the authority to subpoena witnesses, to cross-examine, to scrutinize official records. They are lucky to get their phone calls returned. — Irving Kristol

spring, Jake had — Donna Mabry

In order to be able to count earthly sorrows and afflictions as matters of joy, we have to cultivate the ability to think in terms of the future. — R.C. Sproul

... the invention of the mechanical clock in medieval Europe. This was one of the great inventions in this history of mankind -- not in a class with fire and the wheel, but comparable to movable type in its revolutionary implications for cultural values, technological change, social and political organization, and personality. — David S. Landes

I try not to stack the deck unduly but always let doubt and darkness have their say along with faith and hope, not just because it is good apologetics - woe to him who tries to make it look simple and easy - but because to do it any other way would be to be less true to the elements of doubt and darkness that exist in myself no less than in others. — Frederick Buechner

Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s. — Ian McLagan