Conceditur Quotes

#1. Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it?
[Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]

Horace

#2. I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.

Dougray Scott

#3. Now, Hazel was not stupid. She knew that just because you see a piece of cake and a sign that says EAT ME doesn't mean you should actually do it. And just because two giant ravens point you in the direction of a path doesn't mean you should take it. But it was the only path she had.

Anne Ursu

#4. I expect you to vanish
up and up into the tree,
a shake of the branches
and gone like you
had never happened.
But you came down
and handed me a leaf
"from seven limbs up,
already yellow," you said,
and then you walked away
and you were still real.

Karen Finneyfrock

#5. To his surprise, Jean kissed him. So often in the past, teasing, she had said she would, one day. Now she did, and it was a quick and fragrant touch to his lips that gave him courage and, even before he started out made him yearn to come back home.

Lois Lowry

#6. The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."

Byron Katie

#7. We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.

Samuel Johnson

#8. I think the American people believe in stopping and preventing terrorism pretty much at any cost.

Monica Crowley

#9. When people's love is divided by law, it is the law that needs to change.

David Cameron

#10. After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.

Emmanuelle Beart