Admirari Quotes

#1. Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. Stoicism for show: to be an enthusiast of nil admirari, an hysteric of ataraxia.

Emil M. Cioran

#3. Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It's mainly about telling the truth with our lives. It's about portraying something true about Jesus Christ and the way He relates to his people. It is about showing in real life the glory of the gospel.

John Piper

#4. plastic snap-open

Nicholson Baker

#5. We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.

Annalee Newitz

#6. When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

Lao-Tzu

#7. She doesn't acknowledge Tucker, and there's no thank you for the cigarettes. She says a person shows their gratitude by action, not by words. So I guess that means she thanks me by smoking every cigarette in every pack.

Peter Hedges

#8. How are you, G.I. Joe? It seems to me that most of you are poorly informed about the going of the war, to say nothing about a correct explanation of your presence over here. Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die.

Hanoi Hannah

#9. Everyone's saying you can't do anything until you can do everything, and in life I've never found that to be the case. To me, first you crawl, then you walk, then you run. And so let's get on with it. Let's stick something in the ground and not pretend that it's perfect.

Donald Rumsfeld

#10. You are a physical extension of pure positive energy. Therefore, there is nothing more important than that you feel good.

Esther Hicks

#11. If your writing fails to move the emotional needle, you are not reaching your readers.

Jack R. Cotner

#12. I was born in London in 1919. I first went to America in 1946 for a three-month holiday. Then I came back, worked here for almost a year sold up my home and went back on immigration in 1947.

George Shearing