Adesse Quotes

#1. Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.

Tacitus

#2. There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off their guns anywhere. Possibly somebody would be killed, but the majority of the enemy would be missed.

Charles Spurgeon

#3. Let's say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don't think we have a new Nigeria yet.

Wole Soyinka

#4. I'm usually writing in English, and then I'll get the hankering to change channels. And usually I'll do that when I want to try a whole new set of keys, like musical keys.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#5. Dear Government ... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to.

Stieg Larsson

#6. The apartment was decorated in pinks, ranging from a deep shade bordering on red to a pale, near-white cream. Her blood probably fit right in until it started drying to an ugly shade of brown.

Seanan McGuire

#7. Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.

David Mamet

#8. It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.

Michael O'Donoghue

#9. What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

V.S. Naipaul

#10. In 1911, Edgar Rice Burroughs, having failed at everything else, decided to write a novel. He was then in his mid-thirties, married with two children, barely supporting his family as the agent for a pencil-sharpener business.

Michael Dirda

#11. Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

Voltaire

#12. It is hard to be defensive toward a danger which you have never imagined existed.

John Christopher

#13. Remember That No Matter How Cool You Think You May Be, You Are Not Cool Enough To Look Down On Any One ... Ever.

Paul Walker

#14. Their surplus wealth to the mass of their fellows in the forms best calculated to do them lasting good. Thus is the problem of Rich and Poor to be solved. The laws of accumulation will be left free; the laws of distribution free. Individualism will continue, but the millionaire

Andrew Carnegie

#15. The status quo (of development) pre-ordains failure from the very beginning.

Gene Kim

#16. My life is essentially not so unique. On some deeper levels we feel the same, we know the same things. Therefore if I show my life 365 days, moments from those days, it will reflect and it will have connection with lives of all of us.

Jonas Mekas