Capax Quotes

#1. In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken.
[Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.]

Horace

#2. Laughed with him over black coffee, cried with him over yellowing pictures, talked greenly about having kids of her own,

Jonathan Safran Foer

#3. The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

Henry Ward Beecher

#4. If you're that hard up for money, Pidge ... "
"I'm not borrowing money from you," she sneered.
"I was gonna suggest pawning that bracelet." I smiled.

Jamie McGuire

#5. None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind of driven, patriotic, idealist Americans to public service that our citizens deserved and that our system of self-government demands.

Barack Obama

#6. He knew what he could certainly do, and what he might do if he was lucky, and what he couldn't do barring a miracle.

Larry McMurtry

#7. Cow," Tanith muttered, and that was it, the floodgates opened, and Stephanie doubled over with laughter that echoed throughout the warehouse. Tanith pointed at Stephanie and backed away. "Skulduggery, she's not being professional!

Derek Landy

#8. A painter like Picasso, who runs through many periods and phases, ends up by saying all those things which are on the tip of the tongue of the age to say, and finally sterilizes the originality of his contemporaries and juniors.

Norbert Wiener

#9. At our core, we are not made to be extensions of machines, or to find our personal validity in four decades of gutting it out just so we can sit on a beach for a few years before we die. In short, we are made to Make Meaning, not just money.

Chuck Blakeman

#10. Isn't it amazing?" I asked. "How the ocean bows to the moon."
"Some people believe that it is the lure of the moon that compels the ocean's waves to swell. I believe that it's the ocean's dance that entices the moon's rays to shine upon it,

Nicole Gulla

#11. Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.

Helen Fisher

#12. With integrity, nothing else counts. Without integrity, nothing else counts.

Winston Churchill

#13. Even the raven started out in human form, and he fumbled blindly, and his actions were haphazard until it was revealed to him who he was and what his purpose was.

Peter Hoeg

#14. when dreams died, the heart grew bitter.

Kim Fielding

#15. Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.

Seneca The Younger