Vitae Latin Quotes & Sayings

If you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation. — Noam Chomsky

Beautiful girls in fairy stories are as common as pebbles on the beach. Magnolia-skinned milkmaids rub shoulders with starry-eyed princesses and, in fact, counting two eyes in each bright-eyed damsel would result in a whole galaxy of twinkling stars. — Eloisa James

Repeating the same behavior will just get you the same results. "As — Spencer Johnson

When I knocked a guy down, there was no second part to the story. — Bob Gibson

If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine. — Stanley Kubrick

Faith is a state of constant examination and openness. In faith we must be vulnerable. Only in this seeming weakness do we live with God. — Max Gladstone

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small. — Terence McKenna

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals. — Lillian Gordy Carter

Again and again, where Tolkien's heroes make heroic choices, Jackson's versions of these characters must be tricked or forced or involuntarily stumble into the courses of action that seem to make them heroes. It is important, therefore, to see just how important choice was to Tolkien, and to heroism. — Matthew Dickerson

The tin-sheep and wooden-melon proletariat produced their papers and named their places of work. The madman with the white beard plucked at the sleeve of the policemen, opened up his folded handkerchief, and said: professor of philosophy. — Herta Muller

The passion for such children contains no ego motive of anticipated reciprocity; one is choosing against, in the poet Richard Wilbur's phrase, 'loving things for reasons'. You find beauty and hope in the existence, rather than the achievements, of such a child. Most parenthood entails some struggle to change, educate and improve one's children; people with multiple severe disabilities may not become anything else, and there is a compelling purity in parental engagement not with what might or should or will be, but with, simply, what is. — Andrew Solomon

I think I like you," I muttered, pressing my face to his muscled torso in a hug. I felt his heartbeat under my ear.
"I think I like you back. — L.J. Shen

Without will-power, you become a victim to the evils of procrastination, laziness and sloth. — Robin S. Sharma