Amplectitur Quotes

#1. The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards?
[Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam
Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam
Praemia se tollas.]

Juvenal

#2. I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#3. Make a plan to change the world. For
one night, don't disbelieve that you can.

Martha Beck

#4. I look at it this way: I got to do better than yesterday.

Uriah Hall

#5. I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil.

Andrew Solomon

#6. My dad never pushed me but the big thing is that he helped me by going out in the backyard and playing with me.

Bart Starr

#7. This was more than the mate-claim. It was more than love. More than a fluttering of our hearts, or a tingle when she entered a room.

Lila Felix

#8. Art is the signature of civilizations.

Beverly Sills

#9. He addressed the class ... in a soft, stupefied, increasingly breathless tone like an astronaut pleading with a mad supercomputer to open an airlock.

Michael Chabon

#10. Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.

Barack Obama

#11. Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

Marilyn Ferguson

#12. The Prince had fallen in love. She was only a farmer's daughter, but she was was beautiful, and also smart, as the daughters of farmers need to be, for farms are complicated businesses.

Patrick Ness

#13. Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.

Epictetus