Cotis Quotes

#1. I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut.
[Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum
Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]

Horace

#2. Don't worry about what others think of you. It doesn't matter as long as you have your own Convictions and are proud of what you do.-RVM

R.v.m.

#3. Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

Thomas Szasz

#4. The whole dating ritual was different when I was a kid. Girls got pinned, not nailed.

Bill Maher

#5. ... Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.

Dan Brown

#6. I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have.

Lou Henry Hoover

#7. In the history of humanity, there have been many languages, including French, that have served as universal languages: Latin, Chinese, Arabic, and more. Yet none of them ever ruled the world the way English does today.

Minae Mizumura

#8. When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in: this world, and also the invisible world of meaning that sustains everything that was and ever shall be.

Roger Housden

#9. Teaching our children to be well-behaved, good citizens is proper as far as it goes. But we must never mistake this training for Christian nurture or discipline, nor should we mistake their acquiescence to our social mores as true Christian righteousness.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#10. Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.

Jeanne Phillips

#11. Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.

Ludwig Von Mises

#12. It is within the police power of the state to prohibit public use of fighting words that create a danger of breach of the peace, but simply to prohibit public use of fighting words is too broad. Those words may sometimes be used in situations where there is no danger.

Ithiel De Sola Pool

#13. I've reached that final moment of editing a book - the one where the text manifests as a living breathing person and starts slugging me in the face.

Richard Due

#14. I'm not always able to think about so much loss without bitterness and anger. I don't know if I'll ever be capable of loving my enemies; I'm not always capable of forgiving myself.

Sara Miles

#15. This cancer of the mind which consists of thinking all too sadly that certain things 'are,' while others, which well might be, 'are not.

Andre Breton

#16. People get together and go to the movies or on hikes, but everyone maintains their own independent domicile.

Frederick Lenz