Possunt Quae Quotes & Sayings

Although Wittgenstein did say, "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world." — Louisa Hall

The grey of a bitter, starved-looking morning. The town like a mortally wounded creature, torn by shells, gashed open by bombs. Dead streets - streets of death - death in streets and their houses; yet people still able to sleep and still sleeping. — Radclyffe Hall

The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous. — Pierre Schaeffer

Just being alive feels so arduous that all I want to do is climb under the covers and sleep. — Lauren DeStefano

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear. — Laozi

We knew it was holy. Every sentence we cherished was sturdy and Biblical in its form, carved somehow by hand-dragged implement or slapped onto sheets by an inky key. For sentences were sculptural, were we the only ones who understood? Sentences were bodies, too, as horny as the flesh-envelopes we wore around the house all day. — Jonathan Lethem

You see, dear - I think there are two types of people in the world. Those who divide the world up into two kinds of people... and those who don't. — Tony Hendra

Consult the genius of the place in all;
That tells the waters or to rise, or fall;
Or helps th' ambitious hill the heav'ns to scale,
Or scoops in circling theatres the vale;
Calls in the country, catches opening glades,
Joins willing woods, and varies shades from shades,
Now breaks, or now directs, th' intending lines;
Paints as you plant, and, as you work, designs. — Alexander Pope

By loving more, you let your love live forever. The more you love, the more love you will have to give away. — Debasish Mridha

I want to stay in her mind. I need to stay in her mind. — E.L. James

Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods. — Alexander Pope

I've been a biker, I've been a convict, I've been a husband, father, and son. — Duane Chapman

In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to know them. This, generally speaking, is precisely what has happened. For, otherwise, one ought to know that there is only one way of honoring them, and that is to continue seeking with the same spirit and with the same courage, and not to weary of the search. — Friedrich Nietzsche