Propterea Latin Quotes & Sayings

I learned that life can change in an instant. It can flip over like a box of Styrofoam peanuts, and you're left scrambling to gather enough insulation to survive, before it all blows away. After that, you sink down into what's left, like a fragile glass vase with a crack in it, trying to avoid further damage.

One bold year is worth a dozen timid ones.... — Lisa Wingate

What is coping? This is what it is like: a cave underground deep in rock, hung across its roof with accretions of dripping salts. I am cavernous and hard as mineral. The cave holds a pool of dark water that has not seen light. The water is very cold; it is undrinkable and its size is unmapped. It is mine, but people cannot see it. Only Ev sometimes senses that it is there. All the time people say that I am coping very well. It is impossible to explain my strategy to them. It is opaque even to me. — Marion Coutts

A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure. — Stuart Pearson Wright

They'd listen silenty, with grave faces: but once they'd turn to each other they'd smile cruelly. He couldn't have it both ways. He'd put himself outside and outside they'd make him stay. Neither brutality nor complaining could force a way in. — John McGahern

Literature is dead, my boy' the uncle replied. 'Look at these empty rooms, and these books buried in their dust; no one reads anymore; I am the guardian of a cemetery here, and exhumation is forbidden.' ... 'My boy, never speak of literature, never speak of art! Accept the situation as it is! You are Monsieur Boutardins ward before being your Uncle Huguenin's nephew! — Jules Verne

Girl, you got a couch and a bed. You don't even have a TV. You gotta step this shit up. — Kristen Ashley

If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor. — Sylvester Stallone

Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious. — Scott Dikkers

I was always fraught with guilt, and it's such a waste of an emotion. It keeps you out of the moment of being where you are. — Kyra Sedgwick

What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I started to model because I thought I could use it as an excuse to others, like, 'Yeah, I'm tall because I'm a model.' — Tao Okamoto

But Princess Magnolia wore glass slippers on weekdays. Princess Magnolia was afraid of snails. Sunlight made Princess Magnolia sneeze. And at the moment, the Princess in Black was hog-tying a monster. — Shannon Hale