Fortissimus Quotes

#1. There is a point in every philosophy at which the "conviction" of the philosopher appears on the scene; or, to put it in the words of an ancient mystery: adventavit asinus, / pulcher et fortissimus. (Translation: The ass arrives, beautiful and most brave.)

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. Kestrel had bought a life, and loved it, and sold it.

Marie Rutkoski

#3. For a man who makes his salvation perfect through suffering, is more of a saint and a loving hero of nature.

Auliq Ice

#4. The story is told of a famous German chemist that his marriage did not take place, because he forgot the hour of his wedding and went to the laboratory instead of to the church. He was wise enough to be satisfied with a single attempt and died at a great age unmarried

Sigmund Freud

#5. I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

Jerry Doyle

#6. Schools learned long ago that the way to keep children from thinking is to keep them busy.

Everett Reimer

#7. This is Mama Likes a Spankin', come back good, buddies." I look at Ronin. He shakes his head. "You don't want to know," he says. "Go ahead, Red Cheeks," Ford replies.

J.A. Huss

#8. We want to shut down the day laborer site. This day laborer site undermines and violates federal immigration law, and it can't go forward.

Tom Fitton

#9. What is or is not the jargon is determined by whether the word is written in an intonation which places it transcendently in opposition to its own meaning; by whether the individual words are loaded at the expense of the sentence, its propositional force, and the thought content.

Theodor Adorno

#10. How few young men realize that their success in life depends more upon what they are than upon what they know. It is self-esteem that has brought the race this far.

Charles Wesley

#11. There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

Ralph Fiennes

#12. Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

Bob Dylan

#13. A lot of my music that I like puts energy in your body or makes you want to dance or break something or just go mosh or jump around.

Blake Anderson

#14. A leader can't make excuses. There has to be quality in everything you do. Off the court, on the court, in the classroom.

Michael Jordan

#15. Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.

Joan D. Vinge