Authoritas Quotes

#1. Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]

Michel De Montaigne

#2. Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Zhuangzi

#3. I shake my head. The EQUESTRIAN

Charles Stross

#4. An ounce of love is greater than a ton of passion.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. I learned a valuable lesson doing 'Mr. Sunshine,' which is that I didn't want to be in charge because it's too much. Being in charge and acting in every scene was just too difficult. It's like eating dinner in a moving golf cart every night.

Matthew Perry

#6. Knowing God supersedes everything else because it is the supreme cause. Everything else - being, doing, loving, believing, hoping, praising, worshipping, evangelizing, glorifying, enjoying - is an effect.

Larry Alan Thompson

#7. It's the anthropic principle's evil twin, he thought.

Peter Watts

#8. It's always been a dream of mine to be Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse, and here I am performing alongside Robert Lindsay and being directed by a major Broadway producer. Who said dreams don't come true?

Samantha Bond

#9. Most people enjoy 'potato-chip news' from time to time - to track a presidential election or the Oscars. However, some are particularly drawn to material that makes them feel shocked, frightened, insecure, or indignant, and that's what potato-chip news often provides.

Gretchen Rubin