Scribonius L Quotes & Sayings

It all goes back to 'Wow, I never knew this about Marco Polo.' This is an incredible story and an incredible character, and such a rich world of Mongolian and Chinese culture. — John Fusco

I was born in Brazil and grew up in the '70s under a climate of political distress, and I was forced to learn to communicate in a very specific way - in a sort of a semiotic black market. You couldn't really say what you wanted to say; you had to invent ways of doing it. You didn't trust information very much. — Vik Muniz

Nemo est qui tibi sapientius suadere possit te ipso: numquam labere, si te audies.
(Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you'll never go wrong.) — Marcus Tullius Cicero

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? — Stendhal

Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren't interested in), people don't speak their beliefs easily, or publicly. — Edward R. Murrow

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way. — Antoine Rivarol

Indeed, love is beautiful, yet at the same time, it is a cruel punishment, starker than death. — Khaddam Ahmed Khan

President Benson's mighty influence is felt in many ways. His timely and inspired counsel to read the precious Book of Mormon brought an added appreciation of this sacred scripture to all who followed his direction. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

A Bet is a Tax on Bullshit — Alex Tabarrok

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him. — Philip Sidney

In dreams there are only half-discoveries. In dreams we expect to be tricked and are constantly jumpy, awaiting the strange twist or the inevitable fall. In the event of the latter, even a peaceful death is denied us, and we are awake, sweaty and eyeballs still moving. As we spend the first waking moments trying desperately to remember our dream lives or wondering if a death in dreams provokes our real deaths, everything is soon forgotten and we move and live in the natural world. — Angelo R. Lacuesta

happiness manifests itself both personally and collectively as an elusive and deceiving ghost that refuses to let anyone catch it. — Luis E. Navia

We were not made to look inward for self-realization, but to look outwards in love. I — Tim Chester

If ever I was in a plane that was going down, rather than screaming, crying and railing against the inevitable, I would look out the window, watch my death speeding toward me, and fully appreciate the final experience of my life. — Frank Warren