Quidnunc Quotes & Sayings

In all sorts of government man is made to believe himself free, and to be in chains. — Stanislaw Leszczynski

Why so much fighting? Is the land valuable?"
"There is nothing of value here. Yet men have always believed that they know better than those who came before. That they will be the ones to claim the Contested Lands. — Susan Dennard

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are. — Noah Porter

A cat has absolute honesty. — Ernest Hemingway,

I couldn't have written things like 'Low' and 'Heroes,' those particular albums, if it hadn't have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there. — David Bowie

But pure, unadulterated feelings are dangerous in their own way. It is no easy feat for a flesh-and-blood human being to go on living with such feelings. That is why it is necessary for you to fasten your feelings to the earth - firmly, like attaching an anchor to a balloon. — Haruki Murakami

Diana couldn't be improved upon even by imagination. — L.M. Montgomery

Computers are finite machines; when given the same input, they always produce the same output. — Greg Perry

Shoes are the finishing touch on any outfit and it is important to complete a look with the perfect pair! — Tracy Reese

In every good man a God doth dwell. — Seneca The Younger

In the end, we only regretted the chances we didn't take, the relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make. — Taryn Plendl

Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't. — Jesse Eisenberg

Facts are but the Play-things of lawyers,
Tops and Hoops, forever a-spin ... Alas, the Historian may indulge no such idle Rotating. History is not Chronology, for that is left to Lawyers,
nor is it Remembrance, for Remembrance belongs to the People. History can as little pretend to the Veracity of the one, as claim the Power of the other,
her Practitioners, to survive, must soon learn the arts of the quidnunc, spy, and Taproom Wit,
that there may ever continue more than one life-line back into a Past we risk, each day, losing our forebears in forever,
not a Chain of single Links, for one broken Link could lose us All,
rather, a great disorderly Tangle of Lines, long and short, weak and strong, vanishing into the Mnemonick Deep, with only their Destination in common. — Thomas Pynchon

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans. — Sigmund Freud

I always say it's worth doing what you want to do, not letting people manipulate you. It's worth holding out. It's worth having pride. — Geraldine Page