Praeteritio Quotes & Sayings

The thing about people who mean everything they say is that they think everyone else does too. — Khaled Hosseini

[ ... ] things most people do naturally are often inexplicably difficult for me. — Tina Fey

Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden. — Kurt Vonnegut

Time waxing old can many a lesson teach. — Aeschylus

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them. — Plutarch

Only recently has tolerance become an emblem of Western civilization, an emblem that identifies the West exclusively with modernity, and with liberal democracy in particular, while also disavowing the West's
savagely intolerant history, which includes the Crusades, the Inquisition, witch burnings, centuries of anti-Semitism, slavery, lynching, genocidal and other violent practices of imperialism and colonialism, Naziism, and brutal responses to decolonization. — Wendy Brown