Veteris Vestigia Quotes & Sayings

OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe ... The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly. — Ambrose Bierce

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape. — Andrew Vachss

Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This gawky wormbent tabernacle. — Cormac McCarthy

Maybe sometimes you just have to love someone for who they'll never be in order to move on with your life. — Dannika Dark

I dislike people who get out of things unscraped. No scars, no scratches. Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Refined through a scar. — Danilo Kis

If you can't be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it. — Jim McKelvey

I am empowered but have no power to compel anyone to do anything — Kazeem Olalekan

The temple of silence and reconciliation. — Thomas B. Macaulay

What I do for myself stays within me, what I do for others lasts a lifetime. — Marc Trestman

Right under the sign that said WELCOME TO GATLIN, HOME OF THE SOUTH'S MOST UNIQUE HISTORIC PLANTATION HOMES AND THE WORLD'S BEST BUTTERMILK PIE. I wasn't sure about the pie, but the rest was true. — Kami Garcia

How was I to know idiocy was only a temporary condition, especially in your case? It never has been before! — Gail Carriger

Corporations do a lot of things well, but not run nations, for obvious reasons. — Michael Ian Black