Falsis Quotes

#1. To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
[Lat., Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.]

Tacitus

#2. A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things.
[Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]

Horace

#3. Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical

Amartya Sen

#4. We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear.

Haruki Murakami

#5. During that time, The Mouth came by to pray with us, and my dad began to spend his evenings sitting in the yellow lawn chair and staring at the highway, or down in the basement with his isotope material, finding comfort in the stability that's created from decay.

Miriam Toews

#6. Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.

Samantha Smith

#7. The biggest surprise to people is that I sang background on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' album.

Toni Tennille

#8. We don't notice things change. We know that things change, we've been told since childhood that things change, we've witnessed things change ourselves many a time, and yet we're still utterly incapable of noticing the moment that change comes
or we search for change in all the wrong places.

Arkady Strugatsky

#9. Unkindness is quite a major sin.

John Rhys-Davies

#10. I think it's never mono-causal why you fall in love with something that you want to do.

Robert Schwentke

#11. If creators of Christian culture hope to produce work that will bear good fruit, we must draw our life from the true source - our living Savior. He is real. He is present. But all too often we reduce him to an abstraction, giving him intellectual assent, but not our hearts.

Michael O'Brien

#12. There is a moment when the interior light of the "eyes of faith" becomes one with the exterior light that shines from Christ, and this occurs because man's thirst, as he strives and seeks after God, is quenched as he finds repose in the revealed form of the Son.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#13. As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom, explains, comments, condemns, ordains and order things not understood, yet full of importance still holds forth to stocks and stones around - so sits and scribbles Mike.

Michael Faraday

#14. Dead pirates didn't get to spend their booty. Dead pirates didn't get to shake their booty, either. Bummer.

Nina Bangs

#15. Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.

Emily Susan Rapp

#16. Chefs who cook in these ivory towers are in control in their own world. We try to approximate that world as best we can, but ultimately our goal is to please our clients.

David Castle