Fatui Quotes

#1. The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace ... And, on the contrary, metaphors, and senseless ambiguous words are like ignes fatui; and reasoning upon them is wandering amongst innumerable absurdities.

Thomas Hobbes

#2. Why we can't remember when our mothers carried us inside them: the dark and steady heart, how it was the whole of the world, and no one harmed us, and we harmed no one.

Marie Rutkoski

#3. In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

Anne Frank

#4. I don't really send text messages. I rarely carry my phone. I occasionally check messages at the end of the night, but I don't carry it around.

Angelina Jolie

#5. What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength.

Hassan Nasrallah

#6. I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect.

Gregory Harrison

#7. We all fight our own private wars.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#8. He said that there was death and taxes, and taxes was worse, because at least death didn't happen to you every year.

Terry Pratchett

#9. When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to use the best words that we know. This is what poets are doing. They are cleaning the words, they are inventing the sentiments, they are giving us a way to communicate.

Roberto Benigni