Accipiundis Quotes

#1. The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
[Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.]

Sallust

#2. He cupped her face, his eyes mingling with hers. "Stay," he whispered. "Please." She could deny him nothing when he looked at her that way. When he spoke to her that way. They'd stay for a week. Just one more week. What would it hurt?

Denise Hunter

#3. True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success,

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#4. From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work.

Homaro Cantu

#5. She does it simply because it looks beautiful.

Nicola Yoon

#6. The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is the individual.

Osamu Dazai

#7. I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon.

Henry Rollins

#8. The errors of God, like those of great artists, or of true lovers, bring forth so many joyful rewards, that at times it is worth wishing for them.

Paulo Coelho

#9. brushed with the first crimson of sunrise. On the oval track the comb marks of the rakes in the dirt showed no footsteps; Saul always ran better on fresh earth. He stripped and tossed

James Cannon

#10. It's not your size. It's your inner strength.

Maria Dorfner

#11. Ted, I believe you and I met for a reason. It's like the universe was saying, Hey Barney, there's this dude, he's pretty cool, but it is your job to make him awesome

Barney Stinson

#12. This is the whole secret of the practice of Elementalism: it obtains happiness by the most rigid and austere simplification of the means to happiness.

John Cowper Powys

#13. When the prepared foods and drip-dry shirts that had eased the work of homemakers also made it possible for men to live comfortable, if sloppy, bachelor lives . . .

Stephanie Coontz

#14. Life is a series of decisions Ella, and some of us make the wrong ones.

James Turner