Vergilius Maro Quotes & Sayings

Look at them all. Rats in their cages ... their lives destroyed by love. I'm done with it. I won't be like them. — Jennifer Flackett

I think, with my cartoons, the parent-like figures are kind of my own archeypes of parents, and they're taken a little bit from my parents and other people's parents, and parents I have read about, and parents I dreamed about, and parents that I made up. — Roz Chast

Fresh from memory
Caught in poverty
There is a web that lies beneath it all. — Abigail George

You fool, Helene. When you love, there is always more pain. — Sabaa Tahir

One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live. — Patrick Swayze

Music gives me a sense of self-sufficiency and nourishment. I don't need anyone or anything. I bathe in it as in amniotic fluid; it surrounds and protects me. It's also stable, ever-available and something I can control - that is, I can reach for it whenever I want. I can also choose music that reflects my mood, or if I want, helps to soothe it ... music-seeking offers excitement and tension that I can immediately resolve and a reward I can immediately attain - unlike other tensions in my life and other desired rewards. Music is a source of beauty and meaning outside myself that I can claim as my own without exploring how, in my life, I keep from directly experiencing those qualities. Addiction, in this sense, is the lazy man's path to transcendence. — Gabor Mate

The election of Donald Trump confirmed everything I knew of my country and none of what I could accept. The idea that America would follow its first black president with Donald Trump accorded with its history. I was shocked at my own shock. I had wanted Obama to be right.

I still want Obama to be right. I still would like to fold myself into the dream. This will not be possible. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent. — Arthur Bloch

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both — Benjamin Franklin

But if I endure in trouble, then Pharaoh and his troops are plunged into the deep, and the way out I have hoped for is opened to me. — Martin Luther

Leaving the vehicle, its slaghtered passengers, and another small piece of my humanity behind. — Julie Kagawa