Certa Quotes

#1. Mors certa, vita incerta, as Mr. Sloat occasionally declared. Isidore, although he had heard the expression a number of times, retained only a dim notion as to its meaning. After all, if a chickenhead could fathom Latin he would cease to be a chickenhead.

Philip K. Dick

#2. The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.

Carl Linnaeus

#3. Instead of searching for what you want externally, concentrate on developing mental pictures of your desires. Surround these images with feelings of security, gratitude, and faith; and know that what you've been looking for is on its way to you right now.

Doreen Virtue

#4. Our lives should be more than just focusing on our marriage but on focusing our marriage toward what God's mission is for us as a couple.

Francis Chan

#5. This was the Great Romance. To love at any cost.

Ted Dekker

#6. That hunger for power will need to be beaten out of her,

Claire Thompson

#7. Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

Elie Wiesel

#8. No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.

Hilda Solis

#9. Growing old can mean more than slowing down; it can be a time of truly growing down and incarnating further. Because the inner genius that tries to incarnate through us will keep calling for us to awaken further until we come to the end of our life adventure.

Michael Meade

#10. The lad is surprisingly strong and can turn a game with his incredible acceleration before applying a world-class finish. You can't kick Messi out of a game- he rides tackles like a thoroughbred horse.

Osvaldo Ardiles

#11. As Engels memorably put it: "The overthrow of mother-right was the world historical defeat of the female sex. The man took command in the home also; the woman was degraded and reduced to servitude; she became the slave of his lust and a mere instrument for the production of children.

Anonymous

#12. Once I became interested in China, I flew to Beijing in 1996 to spend half a year studying Mandarin. The city stunned me.

Evan Osnos

#13. In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

James Broughton

#14. Code formatting is important. It is too important to ignore and it is too important to treat religiously. Code formatting is about communication, and communication is the professional developer's first order of business.

Robert C. Martin