Posthumus Quotes & Sayings

The pow'r I have on you is to spare you / The malice towards you, to forgive you.
Posthumus — William Shakespeare

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God. — Michel De Montaigne

We grew up in a place without a hint of love. Perhaps this was the single thing that bound us forever. — Vadim Babenko

Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the faces of) his cows, and of another such patient, an attendant in a Natural History Museum, who mistook his own reflection for the diorama of an ape — Oliver Sacks

Dear God, thank you for my life. I forgot how big and wonderful it is. — Tom Hanks

As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors did, it's not truly inclusive. — Ava DuVernay

There are much worse games to play. — Suzanne Collins

We can not blame Shakespeare for making use of cutthroats and villains in developing his plots, but we might have been spared the jokes which the jailors of Posthumus perpetrate when they come to lead him to the scaffold, and the ludicrous English of the clown who supplies Cleopatra with an asp. — William Shakespeare

A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers. — Jean Vanier

You may force your way through anything with the leverage of prayer. Thoughts and reasonings are like the steel wedges which give a hold upon truth; but prayer is the lever, the prise which forces open the iron chest of sacred mystery, that we may get the treasure hidden within. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!
-Posthumus Leonatus
Act V, Scene V — William Shakespeare

I don't see many people as heroes and, though I love sport, I believe athletes rarely deserve that praise. — Giles Duley