Referendarin Quotes & Sayings

This town must learn,
even against its will, how much it costs
to scorn a God's mysteries and to be purged.
So shall I vindicate my virgin mother
and reveal myself to mortals as a God,
the son of God. — Euripides

Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry. — Lucretius

He had never seen a woman look like that, he thought, fascinated despite his worry for Henry. She had tied back her outrageous hair and wrapped her head carefully in a cloth like a Negro slave woman. With her face so exposed, the delicate bones made stark, the intentness of her expression
with those yellow eyes darting like a hawk's from one thing to another
was the most unwomanly thing he had ever seen. It was the look of a general marshaling his troops for battle, and seeing it, he felt the ball of snakes in his belly relax a little.
She knows what she's doing, he thought.
She looked at him then, and he straightened his shoulders, instinctively awaiting orders
to his utter amazement. — Diana Gabaldon

I've been lucky enough to be surrounded by close friends and family and they've definitely kept me grounded. — Taylor Lautner

What a diva!"
"Stupid, men can't be divas ... "
"Divo, then."
"That just sounds weird. Call him a jerk and be done with it. — Lisa Mantchev

You have no knowledge of my genitalia. - Gilford Boyd (Whisper of Light) — Jennifer DeLucy

Tut, tut, child!' said the Duchess. 'Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.' And she squeezed herself up closer to Alice's side as she spoke. — Lewis Carroll

Imagine all the food mankind has produced over the past 8,000 years. Now consider that we need to produce that same amount again - but in just the next 40 years if we are to feed our growing and hungry world. — Paul Polman

Awareness, even at a subconscious level, beats fancy checklists without it, track or you will fail. — Tim Ferriss