Quoniam Quotes & Sayings

You think I have the responsibilty ... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time! — Thom Yorke

A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry. — William Hazlitt

Organic planning does not begin with a preconceived goal; it moves from need to need, from opportunity to opportunity, in a series of adaptations that themselves become increasingly coherent and purposeful, so that they generate a complex final design, hardly less unified than a pre-formed geometric pattern. — Lewis Mumford

War provides some people with a sense of purposefulness. The drumbeat of war quickens the pulse of neighbors, relatives, tribes, and nations. Hostile nations amass weapons of destruction claiming that they seek peace through deterrence. When war comes, advocates of arms galvanize the citizenry by proclaiming the inevitability of conflict. Each side's propaganda machine cast the campaign of present war as the next Great War. Generals brashly promote armed conflict as the war to end all other wars. Saber-rattlers proclaim that the opposition's militant disciples instituted this ordeal of conquest and destruction. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Lovely as a spring day but not the sort to make one envious, any more than one would envy the sun its ability to shine. — Julie Anne Long

Thou oughtest to know, since thou livest near the gods.
[Lat., Scire, deos quoniam propius contingis, oportet.] — Horace

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. — Ernst Moritz Arndt

We'll meet again. We'll meet when years have passed, and years make such a difference, don't they? — Ayn Rand

Snuffleupagus was real. No — Joe Hill

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives. — Robert Emmet

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write. — A.E. Housman