Atris Quotes

#1. Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings.
[Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus
Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]

Horace

#2. I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.

Anne Rice

#3. Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.

Alfred North Whitehead

#4. Suddenly he was aware with certainty and joy that below, ahead, they were waiting for him; and that they were waiting, too, for the baby.

Lois Lowry

#5. I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing they weren't the same thing.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. I knocked a lot of guys out from the seventh round on - so if I gave up, I would never have achieved what I did. There was no giving up. It's weak to give up. The easiest thing in the world is to quit.

Micky Ward

#7. Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.

Robert Frost

#8. Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights.

Martha Plimpton

#9. The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life.

William Golding