Eadem Quotes

#1. Semper eadem", always the same...

Elizabeth I

#2. Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live;
Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others.
[Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum;
Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus
Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]

Lucretius

#3. Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
[Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato;
Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]

Juvenal

#4. The new birth is the creation of spiritual life, not the imitation of life.

John Piper

#5. I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.

Rhys Ifans

#6. My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

Debi Thomas

#7. It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.

Steve Martin

#8. Unfortunately, at present, practically no one under thirty goes to workshops. It's a system of education entirely for the middle aged.

Rupert Sheldrake

#9. You hated me that much?'
'No.' I grabbed a branch and pulled myself up, my back still to him. 'I missed you that much.

Bree Despain

#10. She'd risk everything she had to feel alive.

Susan Crawford

#11. There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.

Julie Burchill

#12. Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.

James Surowiecki

#13. Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. When one lives attached to money, pride or power, it is impossible to be truly happy

Pope Francis