Sublimi Quotes & Sayings

Is it okay to lie in order to be happy? — A.S. King

If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars.
[Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris,
Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.] — Horace

How then does light return to the world after the eclipse of the sun? Miraculously. Frailly. In thin stripes. It hangs like a glass cage. It is a hoop to be fractured by a tiny jar. There is a spark there. Next moment a flush of dun. Then a vapour as if earth were breathing in and out, once, twice, for the first time. Then under the dullness someone walks with a green light. Then off twists a white wraith. The woods throb blue and green, and gradually the fields drink in red, gold, brown. Suddenly a river snatches a blue light. The earth absorbs colour like a sponge slowly drinking water. It puts on weight; rounds itself; hangs pendent; settles and swings beneath our feet. — Virginia Woolf

The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated. — John Flavel

So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are
unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight. — Peter Ackroyd

Look at a person's friends, and you can tell a lot about how secure a person is. Insecure people only get close to people to whom they feel superior in terms of looks, age, education, position, or financial status. Insecure people feel that they must have some kind of edge on others so that others will look up to them as a superior rather than looking at them as an equal eyeball to eyeball. Some people will not get close to you unless they can advise you, boss you, or run your business. Some people will dislike you and will feel threatened by you if in their shallow opinion you look as good as they do, know as much as they do, or speak, sing, cook, or dress as well as they can. — William D. Watley

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. — Daniel J. Boorstin

If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we abet a general climate in which scepticism is considered impolite, science tiresome, and rigorous thinking somehow stuffy and inappropriate. Figuring out a prudent balance takes wisdom. — Carl Sagan

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something. — Hans Zimmer

Strange territory for me: the after-snap. I still feel myself vibrating. Humming. — Jerry Spinelli

As the light began to fade, the architects lit the library's gas jets, which hissed like mildly perturbed cats. — Erik Larson

We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap. — Ilka Chase

Thy life is not thine own to govern, Danny, for it controls other lives. See how thy friends suffer! Spring to life, Danny, that thy friends may live again! — John Steinbeck