Possumus Quotes & Sayings

When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a new idea with me: compassion. I asked my heart if it could please infuse my soul with a more generous perspective on my mind's workings. Instead of thinking that I was a failure, could I perhaps accept that I am only a human being
and a normal one, at that? — Elizabeth Gilbert

The God that reigns in Olympus is Number Eternal. — Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?] — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Find out your most limiting tasks and deal with them as early as possible. Use a diary, and jot little points of reminder about specific tasks for reference later. — Israelmore Ayivor

In all the photos I see the boy I once knew and the man he became, a flawed but decent man whom I grew to care about in a more complicated way than I had ever cared about the boy. — Elizabeth Stone

In love, you pay as you leave. — Mark Twain

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall. — George R R Martin

Translated 'Non omnia possumus omnus' as 'No possums allowed on the omnibus. — Connie Willis

French people are charming, adorable but not extremely generous with foreigners, but they believe in what they do. I feel proud in exchange because what I did in restoration is something I did for La France. — Valentino Garavani

The sun is new each day. — Heraclitus

Things are moving pretty quick, and of course, the whole focus is training and getting ready and being able to prepare to be on the world's stage and hopefully do the United States proud. — Ryan Lochte

Bacon had done it, and Campanella had said, with Baconian pithiness, Tantum possumus quantum scimus - "Our power is proportioned to our knowledge." Perhaps — Will Durant

She could not help but feel that paying money to take ownership of a living organism was inappropriate. — Haruki Murakami

There was one thing more he wanted from this funeral. He wanted to see the hearse pass by again, the body tilted for viewing, a digital corpse, a loop, a replication. It did not seem right that the hearse had come and gone. He wanted it to reappear at intervals, proud body open to the night, to replenish the sorrow and wonder of the crowd. — Don DeLillo

Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage. — Ta-Nehisi Coates