Suscipiatur Quotes & Sayings

I had placed a lot of faith in Woody Allen's belief that 80 percent of success is just showing up. I said to myself: Are you serious? 80 percent? Sure, I can just show up. Here I am, New York! Give me a job! — Mindy Kaling

All remained loyal to him, not because they always agreed with him, but because the regent listened to and respected different opinions. — Nelson Mandela

Hi my name is Brian, but uh, you can call me 'B-Rok'. Cuz, I be rockin' your house! — Brian Littrell

They could not help loving anything that made them laugh. The Lisbon earthquake was "embarrassing to the physicists and humiliating to theologians" (Barbier). It robbed Voltaire of his optimism. In the huge waves which engulfed the town, in the chasms which opened underneath it, in volcanic flames which raged for days in the outskirts, some 50,000 people perished. But to the courtiers of Louis XV it was an enormous joke. M. de Baschi, Madame de Pompadour's brother-in-law, was French Ambassador there at the time. He saw the Spanish Ambassador killed by the arms of Spain, which toppled onto his head from the portico of his embassy; Baschi then dashed into the house and rescued his colleague's little boy whom he took, with his own family, to the country. When he got back to Versailles he kept the whole Court in roars of laughter for a week with his account of it all. "Have you heard Baschi on the earthquake? — Nancy Mitford

The DC Improv food is amazingly edible for a comedy club. — Jim Gaffigan

Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company. — George Gordon Byron

To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an animal. — Bertrand Russell

Everything is magic when you don't know what it is. Your sliding rule is a magic wand to most people. — Terry Pratchett

Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace.
[Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero

My role as an advocate for Epidermolysis Bullosa related issues, my key responsibility, were to inform, educate, and promote understanding of what we go through as individuals and as a community. — Silvia Corradin

This is the thing, I'm not fazed by what people say about me because I know who I am and what I've been through. — Erica Mena

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight ...
[Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells ... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of
meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread. — Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

Never explain yourself, Alma. It makes you appear weak. — Elizabeth Gilbert

A servile spirit you have nothing to do with: you are not a slave, but a child; and now, inasmuch as you are a beloved child, you are bound to obey your Father's faintest wish, the least intimation of His will. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

My mother used rituals to perpetuate an illusion of family organization. — Patricia Thompson Collamer