Antecedentem Scelestum Quotes

#1. Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
[Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum
Deseruit pede poena claudo.]

Horace

#2. Pleasant it is for the Little Tin Gods
When great Jove nods;
But Little Tin Gods make their little mistakes
In missing the hour when great Jove wakes.

Rudyard Kipling

#3. There was a day when I liked writing letters
it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

Virginia Woolf

#4. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus; and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.

William Shakespeare

#5. I'm not certain what I notice first, the bright flickering light that illuminates the darkness underneath my eyelids, or the shrill screams that pull me form the dredges of sleep. Either way, I'm awake. And afraid.

Christine Fonseca

#6. Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.

Carlos Fuentes

#7. A country will never love you like a woman.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#8. I had to learn a skill set. I think I had the materials to be a good comedy writer.

Mindy Kaling

#9. It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable.

Jim Leach

#10. Why were men so caught up with their honor, their solemn word, their promises?
Half the time the promises were never asked of them in the first place.
And yet the wars that were fought over such things, the hearts broken and the lands ruined..!

Tad Williams

#11. On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.

Amanda Palmer

#12. The extreme always makes an impression.

Jeff Hardy

#13. Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord's sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.

Saint Ignatius

#14. That's good. And speaking of spelling, tell me
do you wrap your head in a towel after you shower?

Nicholas Sparks

#15. I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.

Bev Perdue

#16. Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away; when we sit at the table and pass the peas to the person next to us we see that person in a whole new way.

Alice Waters