Cantabit Quotes

#1. The traveler without money will sing before the robber.
[Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

Juvenal

#2. Well, we had a bunch of primaries and caucuses on the Democratic side. Bernie Sanders won the Nebraska and Kansas caucuses. That keeps his campaign alive. But Hillary Clinton won Louisiana, which was the big prize of the night, so she ended up winning more delegates than he did yesterday.

Mara Liasson

#3. We'd rip out the hedges and burn the hooches and blow all the wells and kill every chicken, pig and cow in the whole fucking ville. I mean, if we can't shoot these people, what the fuck are we doing here?

Adam Hochschild

#4. Don't get on a horse that's moving.

Buck Brannaman

#5. By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#6. Allow your heart to be so wrapped up in God that a guy has to ask for directions to get to it.

Chad Eastham

#7. If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm.

Brene Brown

#8. In hospitals I feel palpable comfort. I feel the competence, the expertise, so much education and money, all of the supplies sterile, everything packaged, sealed tight. My fears evaporate when the automatic doors shush open.

Dave Eggers

#9. They claim they're living the vita apostolica; but you didn't find the apostles feeling each other's bollocks.

Hilary Mantel

#10. Our first priority has to be getting our fiscal house in order - and creating an atmosphere for the private sector in job creation.

Bill Huizenga

#11. When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

Richard M. Nixon

#12. Scooping up the dress, I slip it over my head, and as it cascades to the floor. I suck my stomach for all I'm worth. Forget staying in with a good book. This Cinderella is going to the ball.

Alexandra Potter