Circumvolat Quotes

#1. Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings.
[Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus
Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]

Horace

#2. The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.

Jaron Lanier

#3. If I must fall, may it be from a high place.

Paulo Coelho

#4. There are times when you're working with film people when you have to say, 'If the camera were on you, what you're doing would be perfect'.

Anna D. Shapiro

#5. The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second story window. But unlike the piano, the tiger is designed to do this, and the impact is only the beginning.

John Vaillant

#6. The way to begin healing the wounds of the world is to treasure the Infant Christ in us; to be not the castle but the cradle of Christ; and, in rocking that cradle to the rhythm of love, to swing the whole world back into the beat of the Music of Eternal Life.

Caryll Houselander

#7. Field experiments to date have shown that microfinance - the provision of small loans, typically to women or groups of women - is not particularly effective in reducing poverty.14

Dani Rodrik

#8. The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness

Kengo Kuma

#9. The problem with fear-based Christianity is we only obey when the fear is there. If you only want to obey God when you feel threatened by his commands, it's not God you worship, but your fear.

Jefferson Bethke

#10. Whoever coined the term "Buyer Beware" was probably bleeding from the asshole.

George Carlin

#11. And when it hit him then, something settled in Walker. Settled deep. Something weighty but not heavy. Something warm. Something welcome. This

Kristen Ashley

#12. I'm a firm believer that everything in life works out the way it's supposed to. And who knows? I figure I've got a few years left (in the NHL) and maybe I can come back in the end.

Darren McCarty

#13. Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#14. The forest belongs to all who live within its cycles and seasons

D.S. Russell

#15. The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.

Otto Von Bismarck

#16. All that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why things had turned out the way they had. It evoked a certain mutiny in me.

Sue Monk Kidd