Auriti Quotes

#1. One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. Those who hear, speak of shat they have heard; whose who see, know beyond mistake.
[Lat., Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem.
Qui audiunt, audita dicunt; qui vident, plane sciunt.]

Plautus

#2. Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

Van Wyck Brooks

#3. No way. I'm so in, it's unreal. I just want you to know that if we make it to Plan E, I'm running. Far away. And possibly changing my name.

Darynda Jones

#4. Aunt Bette." I started squirming toward her voice. "Are you okay?" "No, I'm not okay. We've been kidnapped and Marsh is drinking martinis and probably flirting with the waitress!" she snapped, and it sounded like she too was moving but not in my direction.

Kristen Ashley

#5. You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#6. I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen.

Lois Lowry

#7. I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.

Andrew Sullivan

#8. I go to my parents' over Christmas. I definitely do, but I don't see it as a Christmas because during Christmas there was also a Viking holiday. So I just to choose to see it as that!

Johan Hegg

#9. Procrastination is One of those Excuses, Born of Fear, that we Use to Keep Ourselves Stuck

Wayne Dyer

#10. Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field of catalysis that it is in the first stages of its development.

Wilhelm, Ostwald