Animula Vagula Quotes

#1. There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.

Max Lerner

#2. She handed him his cup of tea with the proud air of an unwilling slave ...

Elizabeth Gaskell

#3. He was not a practical joke nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure.

John Cheever

#4. Shoot off an e-mail saying A handwritten note will follow, but I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed talking to you. The job sounds terrific.

Kate White

#5. If Mad Men had taken place in the '90s it would have been just as believable. But the fact is that was the perfect storm and with the fashion and the sets and the writing and the actors it just all made sense and it just was one of those things that you can't explain.

Christina Hendricks

#6. The daring metaphor of Jesus as bridegroom suggests that the living God seeks more than an intimate relationship with us.

Brennan Manning

#7. Zarathustra has become a child, an awakened one

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. The identity cannot be compartmentalized; it cannot be split in halves or thirds, nor have any clearly defined set of boundaries. I do not have several identities, I only have one, made of all the elements that have shaped its unique proportions.

Amin Maalouf

#9. Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say "I am with you"), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless we bring repentance with us.

Ambrose

#10. An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#11. Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know.

M. King Hubbert

#12. Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

Susan Griffin