Videri Quam Esse Quotes & Sayings

Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem. — Erin Morgenstern

Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed. — Kathy Mattea

It didn't help matters that I was shy and wore glasses. I was never one to stand out in the crowd. I liked to stay in corners. And I was happiest when I was alone reading. That and the good grades I got in school had doomed any chance of being popular with my peers. So it was a foregone conclusion that boys like Hardy were never going to take notice of me. — Lisa Kleypas

The Word cleanses us, believers should be willing to bathe daily in HIS WORD". Clean us up Lord! — DeBorrah K. Ogans

Because of demagogues, rhetoric has a tainted reputation in our time. However, rhetoric is central to democratic governance. It can fuse passion and persuasion, moving free people to freely choose what is noble. — George F. Will

Esse quam videri - "To be, rather than to seem (to be) — Marcus Tullius Cicero

In a free economy, a high degree of apparent randomness does not mean actual randomness. An apparently random pattern is evidence not of purposelessness but of an entrepreneurial economy full of creative surprises. — George Gilder

To me, involvement with news is absolutely inebriating. It's what makes my life exciting. — Katharine Graham

The night leaned in as somehow Ruby found a way to accept that kiss and, in so doing, dipped her big toe into life. — Cynthia Bond

because what is commonly assumed to be past history is actually as much a part of the living present as William Faulkner insisted. — Ralph Ellison

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love. (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion) — Jane Austen

Spirituality is for people. It's not just for those who you might have read about in books, it's for people. — Belsebuub

Brother Maical's wisdom lies in knowing he is not clever and letting himself be led. The foolishness of mankind is that we do not do the same. — Mark Lawrence

The man who loves his job never works a day in his life. — Confucius

Patrick: America is at war with an Afghan tribe...[?]

David: Yeah, it's a, uh, long story. — A.G. Riddle

As children, we think our mother has always been a mother, but it is just one of the roles you may have the opportunity to play. They don't define you as a human being. — Amy Bloom

I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors. — Elvin Jones