Possumus In Latin Quotes & Sayings

If your expectations are always those of someone content to live without physical challenge, then when it comes time for mental, moral, or emotional challenge you fail to meet it because you are out of practice. Meeting and overcoming obstacles are skills that can be honed, as opposed to talents with which we are born. The best way to prepare for the inevitable shit that life occasionally hands us all is to live in a way that prepares you for it. If you can treat personal tragedy like a heavy set of 20 squats, you'll do better than someone who has never met any challenge. Intentionally placing yourself in the position of having to complete a task when you don't know if you can is the single best way of preparing to be in that position unintentionally. — Mark Rippetoe

It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textures on top of it after the fact. But it's one of those things where I wouldn't be able to sit down and specifically write that. That's just what came out. — Dweezil Zappa

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say. — Mark Zandi

Being apart was wrong. Simply lying side by side did more for a relationship than words. A warm bed, a nest of animal intimacy. Words could be misunderstood, whereas loving companionship bred trust. — Michel Faber

He's lost everything once, and now, he wasn't sure if he had anything left to lose. — Carrie Ann Ryan

What you're blaming yourself for is being who you are. And that's no one's fault and nothing you can change. — Cassandra Clare

There's less here than meets the eye. — Tallulah Bankhead

For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss. — Chogyam Trungpa

I can describe my books as I seem them as American, imaginative, symbolic. My literary ancestors are two other Calvinists, Hawthorne, and Melville. — James Purdy

Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique. — David Lynch

Jesus Christ in a cockwagon. — Jesse Andrews

When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror. — Peter Boghossian

When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end - the manner of putting paint to paper. It hardly embraces the expressive side of painting. — Walter J. Phillips

Tonight we had our chances but we ran out of talent. — LeBron James

You marked up my neck last night with that filthy mouth of yours. And you know what else?" Troy felt his defenses slipping. Against his better judgment, he looked down and immediately got lost in her green eyes. "I like it. Having your marks on me. — Tessa Bailey