Donatus Quotes

#1. I despise the proper constructions and cases, because I think it very unfitting that the words of the celestial oracle should be restricted by the rules of Donatus [a well-known grammarian].

Pope Gregory I

#2. I eat, breath and sleep and that makes me like everyone else. When I write, I become something much greater than flesh & bone; something that will stay behind long after that part of me is gone. Writing makes me special, readers make me everlasting.

C.K. Webb

#3. We tried to make a heaven of earth,
But the earth is just a stage, a school,
Where we wear our masks and play our roles
And teach each other how to love.

Kate McGahan

#4. In Brekkukot, words were too precious to use
because they meant something; our conversation was like pristine money before inflation; experience was too profound to be capable of expression; only the bluebottle was free.

Halldor Laxness

#5. And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!

William Shakespeare

#6. Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Industries are fearful of legislation. But if you start in the marketplace and forge a solution, you get a lot less resistance - and often a more flexible approach.

Cary Sherman

#8. Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

David Korten

#9. Yeah, totally. I punch myself in the arms a lot. It's a real problem.

Courtney Summers