Discat Quotes

#1. To Auriel, I will give the gift of gold.
After the night of long and false captivity, the golden SUN is about to rise, and all this by the power of the Stone, lapis ex caelis; for be sure that as Auriel rises the LION shall fall.
Qui non intelligit aut discat aut taceat.

Elizabeth Redfern

#2. The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness.

Pierre Trudeau

#3. Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Alice Walker

#4. However, the ability to control attention is not simply a measure of intelligence; measures of efficiency in the control of attention predict performance of air traffic controllers and of Israeli Air Force pilots beyond the effects of intelligence.

Daniel Kahneman

#5. When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about.

Charles Ferguson

#6. Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.

Thomas Fuller

#7. She always paid for her rare indiscretions by a violent reaction of prudence.

Edith Wharton

#8. And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living.

Fernando Pessoa

#9. My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Bill Hader

#10. I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven't, I claim the credit myself.)

Elizabeth Peters

#11. Collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corpse of their fathers' satisfied passion.

Marthe Bibesco

#12. All this stuff - about the materiality of the network, what it's made of, and how it works - should be part of a basic media literacy, because we depend on this technology for more and more aspects of our day-to-day lives.

Astra Taylor

#13. All of this has to be understood as part of a process leading ultimately to a treaty that will give an international body power over our domestic laws.

Chip Pashayan

#14. Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

Randy Newman