Cantered Quotes

#1. I heard from my dear friend Tiberius Ogden, that you can produce a Patronus? For a bonus point ... ?
Harry raised his wand, looked directly at Umbridge, and imagined her being sacked.
Expecto Patronum!
The silver stag erupted from the end of his wand and cantered the length of the hall.

J.K. Rowling

#2. ...the first Allied troops cantered eastward in the rollicking high spirits obligatory at the beginning of all military debacles.

Rick Atkinson

#3. People will seek the ends of the galaxy to avoid that which they need most.

Criss Jami

#4. I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.

Leo Tolstoy

#5. Science has always said that it may not know everything now but it will know, eventually. But now we see that isn't true. It is an idle boast. As foolish, and as misguided, as the child who jumps off a building because he believes he can fly.

Michael Crichton

#6. What we feel is mortal, and won't come again.

Ruth Padel

#7. Thanks to a lot of people, not just myself, 'Whale Rider' had an amazing impact emotionally, and people remember it. I count myself very lucky that all those doors were unlocked, I just had to open them.

Keisha Castle-Hughes

#8. The German-French friendship is indispensable for Europe. And I will never let myself be carried away to making statements that would change it.

Francois Hollande

#9. To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.

John Locke

#10. When a girl turns down your advances, the polite thing to do is just move on.

Adam Selzer

#11. Demetrius paid for the tickets, so I guess it really doesn't matter.

S.B. Johnson

#12. I use minimal software to make my music - a wav editor and a calculator for my beats to make sure everything falls on mathematical precision. If you were just mapping this out visually, it works by math. I guess it's slightly engineering influenced.

Girl Talk

#13. Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.

Barney Frank

#14. I don't care about any of it. All I want to do is lean forward and kiss him. Steal him away from the bad stuff, convince him to start over because I believe he isn't beyond saving yet.

K.A. Tucker

#15. To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone.

Pope Francis