Canto Xii Quotes

#1. Science isn't about WHY, it's about WHY NOT!

J.K. Simmons

#2. The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#3. Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.

Anonymous

#4. Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity.

Dante Alighieri

#5. Comrade, you and I can never be satisfied with sitting down before a great human problem and saying nothing can be done. We must do something. That is the reason we are here on Earth.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#6. As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

John Keble

#7. Our government has failed us. From the billion-dollar bailouts to the 'stimulus' package that failed to stimulate to the government takeover of health care, you cried 'Stop!' ... but the Democratic Majority in Washington has refused to listen.

Kevin McCarthy

#8. An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.

Octavio Paz

#9. If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.

Mario Andretti

#10. When I ask how old your toddler is, I don't need to hear '27 months.' 'He's two' will do just fine. He's not a cheese. And I didn't really care in the first place.

George Carlin

#11. Chief point was that all this was, as it were, not accidental in me, but as though it were bound to be so.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal.

Alfonso Cuaron

#13. I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced

Joseph Conrad

#14. The nightmares arrived like they always did, much like the best player in the opposition when you've heard rumors that he might be injured or sick-but there he is, warming up with the rest of them, ready to take the field.

Markus Zusak

#15. We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured ... It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

Jane Austen

#16. My object is to show that the chief function of the child
his business in the world during the first six or seven years of his life
is to find out all he can, about whatever comes under his notice, by means of his five senses ...

Charlotte M. Mason