Vestra Latin Quotes & Sayings

I know I am only one, but I am one, and just because I'm one should not stop me from — Edward Everett Hale

There was tactical significance: stop the railroads. An excellent maneuver, no doubt, but the technique was horrible. The planes started kicking high-explosives and incendiaries through their bomb-bays at the city limits, and for all the pattern their hits presented, they must have been briefed by a Ouija board. Tabulate the loss against the gain. Over one hundred thousand non-combatants and a magnificent city destroyed by bombs dropped wide of the stated objectives: the railroads were knocked out for roughly two days. — Kurt Vonnegut

It's always nice to look in the mirror at the end of the day and see that you helped somebody's life ... even if only a little bit. — Tito Ortiz

I felt myself becoming empty, he said, as though I had been living until now on the reserves I had accumulated over the years and they had gradually dwindled away. — Rachel Cusk

I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style. — Ian Jackson

This was going to be like hunting black cats at midnight on a moonless night. — Avery Flynn

There is so much,I thought,just under the surface. So many memories, darting like silvery minnows in a shallow stream. — S.J. Watson

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue. — Juvenal

The Librarian has spoken, sally! We Dare Not Disobey! — James Turner

Kay very calmly and sweetly said, "You know, Pat, how much better do you think Lea Henry and Cindy Noble are going to get at this point?" She was saying ease up - it's enough. I had reached the point of diminishing returns. "I think they are both trying really hard to please you, but how much more can they possibly do?" she said. "I just wonder if you've really thought about that. — Pat Summitt

If you try to kill yourself for a role on the TV show, you'll succeed. It's too long, it's too much. So, it's tough, but the challenge is a good thing. — Majandra Delfino

A story must be judged according to whether it makes sense. And 'making sense' must be here understood in its most direct meaning: to make sense is to enliven the senses. A story that makes sense is one that stirs the senses from their slumber, one that opens the eyes and the ears to their real surroundings, tuning the tongue to the actual tastes in the air and sending chills of recognition along the surface of the skin. To make sense is to release the body from the constraints imposed by outworn ways of speaking, and hence to renew and rejuvenate one's felt awareness of the world. It is to make the senses wake up to where they are. — David Abram

Readers become the book they are reading. — LM

May I ask what role you envision for the Jedi in this war
Two words Skywalker. None whatsoever.

Luke Rodan — Walter Jon Williams

I don't know, I feel like this isn't the real world. The people, the scene: they just don't seem real to me. — Haruki Murakami