Fingit Quotes

#1. Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases.
[Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]

Plautus

#2. It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.

Heraclitus

#3. I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich.

Mother Teresa

#4. Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.

Rachel Zucker

#5. My heart sank. 'You're not going to age another day,' I mumbled to myself. 'You'll never grow old.' He was done. I hadn't even started and and he was already done.

Kelley R. Martin

#6. Do I regret getting married? It's hard for me to say anything because ultimately we're talking about the mother of my child.

Alec Baldwin

#7. In the history of modern warfare, it is doubtful if there are any generals at the top of a command pyramid who have displayed such collective incompetence as these two officers.

Shiv Kunal Verma

#8. Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.

Jacob Burckhardt

#9. Lack of sleep negatively affects mood, memory, immune function, and pain sensitivity; it makes people more likely to fight with their partners; it contributes to weight gain.

Gretchen Rubin

#10. Yes, they know her. They touch her lips, gather her words, fly away with the message, disappear into the dark. Pass through the membrane that separates this world from the unseen world that lies just underneath it.

Margaret Atwood

#11. No, it did a lot of other things, too.
[turning down fan who asked to kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses

James Joyce

#12. I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#13. Our house is quiet, small and plain,
and yet its rooms run far and wide.
A hundred pencils, swift as rain,
writing on sheets of beaten gold
would not be quick enough to hold
the strange adventures
shadows hide ...

Nancy Willard