Ursae Quotes & Sayings

Here is a simple recipe to begin with. Get up every morning with the set intention of writing and go to your desk and sit there for three hours, whether you accomplish anything or not. Before long you will find that you are writing madly, not waiting for inspiration. — Gertrude Atherton

Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and laws is at once overturned by its madmen and scoundrels and lapses into barbarism. — William Batchelder Greene

I'm really laid back but I still like to dress up sometimes. — Allyson Felix

I think I am most fond of the unseen part. I mean that the various cultural experiences that I go through, and the behavioral aspects of getting the work done, are just as important as the installation and the photograph. So, for me, the relationship between the two is more about hybridism and the search for an ideal form that I'm never going to arrive at. The installation and the photograph are mere approximations of this ideal. — Sandy Skoglund

Said no more but, calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty £1,000 notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility which it entailed — Arthur Conan Doyle

I've played a lot of cops. In fact, my father was a cop. — Erik King

Yes, the divorce was difficult. It was difficult. — Priscilla Presley

A sense that with the blessings that God bestowed upon this land, came the responsibility to make the world a better place. — Marco Rubio

If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters. — Christine Pelosi

I have the solution to all my problems. I have money, position, the running of one of the country's legendary cattle stations. I can even get the girl I want. I can't buy her, of course. She's got money of her own. But I'm pretty sure if I talk to her dad, he'll give me the green light. — Margaret Way

Quis hic locus, quae regio, quae mundi plaga? ubi sum? sub ortu solis, an sub cardine glacialis ursae?"

"What place is this, what region, what quarter of the world? Where am I? Under the rising of the sun or beneath the wheeling course of the frozen bear?"

Hercules Furens (The Mad Hercules), Act 5, line 1138 — Seneca.

I always like the people who keep moving forward, but kind of stay in their own lane. — Girl Talk

She was, he reflected, one of his closest friends, in a rather curious, slightly old-fashioned way. — Alexander McCall Smith

I think it would shock most people if they really knew what we have each survived by the time we graduate high school. — Jennifer Elisabeth