Floribus Quotes

#1. Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
[Lat., Medio de fonte leporum
Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]

Lucretius

#2. I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.

Lupe Fiasco

#3. In recent years, academics, policy-makers, and experts have raised the question of the applicability of peacetime environmental law in times of armed conflict.

Widad Akreyi

#4. Because I don't want to," I said. "Not because of the way she is now - I know that's not what she's like. There was no way it was going to be as easy as the notebook. I get that now.

Rachel Cohn

#5. Another might have missed the tension, but she had trained him in the Bene Gesserit Way - in the minutiae of observation.

Frank Herbert

#6. I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.

Action Bronson

#7. There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

Augustus William Hare

#8. In salvation, God both declares us guilty and pays our debt. Only he can satisfy his own requirements. A savior less than God would be disqualified; God must do it himself.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#9. I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn't like is being shown as a silly ass.

David Low

#10. There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

Francis Beaumont

#11. Christ, because of who He is, can look death in the face.

Alistair Begg

#12. Contrary to common assumption, many of the wealthiest Americans aren't worried about the weakening economy at all. They are actually excited about it.

Jamie Johnson

#13. And like that, the decades disappeared and the memory of that night came to life again. The way John had known it would. He didn't fight it, didn't work to stay in the here and now. If he was going to go back, then he wanted to relive it. All of it.

Karen Kingsbury

#14. One of the things about working on stage - actually, about working in show business, that is - is that it's such a collaborative effort. I suppose that everything in life is - every endeavor where people are able to be successful.

Gregory Hines