Caret Quotes

#1. In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits.
[Lat., Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda est
Externis virtus incomitata bonis.]

Ovid

#2. Writing is rewriting; rewriting is writing - from the first crossed-out word in the first sentence to the last word inserted above a caret, that most helpful handwritten stroke.

John Casey

#3. The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature.
[Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]

Ovid

#4. Most young people seem to be behaving very intelligently: They look at things once in a while, but then they find it so idiotic and uncool that they just look away again. That is, provided they're not growing up in a family in which a drunk father is already watching pornos in the morning.

Volkmar Sigusch

#5. Twill be the end of us all when it comes ...
The moon will devour the sun ...
The sea will rise in a great wave and drown the world ...
The Realms will fall ...
Evil will crawl across the land.

Sam J. Charlton

#6. I thought surrendering was a weakness; instead it's the strongest thing a man or a woman can ever do, to acknowledge our Creator who's in control of all things.

Lex Luger

#7. Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book.

Daniel Alarcon

#8. Beware of wallflowers. They expect to have everything done for them.

Mason Cooley

#9. I wonder what's killed more men over the years. Wild animals? Or masculine taunts?

Edward W. Robertson

#10. I do not understand girls who imagine that something forbidden. You can prohibit someone, but did not imagine.

Brigitte Bardot

#11. Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions.

Steve Backley

#12. It becomes one of those defining moments in your life, when your mother does that

Melina Marchetta

#13. My goals may seem impossibly far-fetched when really they're not.
Break them down into steps and see how I accomplish great things.
I can easily reach from A to B.
I can manage from B to C.
I can then make it from C to D.
And so eventually, I will find my way from A to Z.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.

Stefan Zweig

#15. I am not ashamed of my past. I am not ashamed of my humble beginning.

Madam C. J. Walker

#16. God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#17. Act the way that you want to feel.

Gretchen Rubin