Habuisse Quotes

#1. Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will
my soul do thy lord?
Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom.
Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus?
Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.
(It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery)

Christopher Marlowe

#2. celebutante lifestyle

Susan Wiggs

#3. Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

Abraham Verghese

#4. Mexico has proven by now that it's a strong electoral democracy. Now we have to build a democracy that produces better results; if not, then you get a democracy of disenchantment.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#5. I think that we should all be defined by our work and our results.

Jim Breyer

#6. Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.

Banksy

#7. Why can't we all just acknowledge that 'nature' - that is, 'sex' or 'erotic' images, which are really just 'attracters' are everywhere. Of course a flower looks like what it looks like - that's what it is - to a bee.

Sara Genn

#8. If he believed in souls he would have said she had a good one.

Salman Rushdie

#9. My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

Natalie Portman

#10. But no one can truly know how the game will play before the stones are laid upon the board

Mercedes Lackey

#11. Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.

Sigmund Freud

#12. These are things they need to hear, baby. It's their history.

Mildred D. Taylor