Feliciter Naissance Quotes

#1. You are already way more of an adult than you think you are. Truly. Be good, be decent, be responsible, be kind. And don't forget to send thank-you notes.

Kelly Williams Brown

#2. Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.

Hillary Clinton

#3. For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person.

Vine Deloria Jr.

#4. I started out on guitar when I was nine years old, and I started playing bars and stuff when I was thirteen, and I've been playing ever since.

DJ Ashba

#5. I know that trolls are fundamentally sad people; I know that I've already defeated them in every substantive arena - by being smart, by being happy, by being successful, by being listened to, by being loved.

Lindy West

#6. If have got my spindle and my distaff ready
my pen and mind
never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

J.G. Holland

#7. I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Lorrie Moore

#8. We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

Gore Vidal

#9. Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.

Umberto Eco

#10. But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.

Keira Knightley