Horatius Ars Quotes

#1. There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

Isaac Asimov

#2. A hard life improves the vision.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#3. Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

Oswald Spengler

#4. When you think of the good old days, think one word: dentistry.

P. J. O'Rourke

#5. I hear nothing but the sound of my heart breaking into a million tiny pieces, each smaller than a single grain of sand.

Carrie Anne Noble

#6. True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Charles Simmons

#7. I don't know if you can be a born-again virgin.

Judd Apatow

#8. In the absence of fear there is little faith.

Michael Palin

#9. As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.

Jeff Koons

#10. The ramdomness of events in the world is so lacking in logic that we give it names like destiny, fate, karma and kismat to deal with the irrationality of its sequence

Anirban Bose

#11. Via the squares on the chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which control the world and the ties which link Chess with the human soul

Al-Masudi

#12. I call a man awake who knows in his conscious reason his innermost unreasonable forces, drives, and weaknesses and knows how to deal with them.

Hermann Hesse

#13. ...she doesn't want to become the kind of person who thinks that good news can only come from calls one was already expecting and callers one already knows

Gabrielle Zevin

#14. Like Afghanistan before it, Iraq is only one theater in a regional war. We were attacked by a network of terrorist organizations supported by several countries, of whom the most important were Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.

Michael Ledeen