Ignes Fatui Quotes

#1. The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace ... And, on the contrary, metaphors, and senseless ambiguous words are like ignes fatui; and reasoning upon them is wandering amongst innumerable absurdities.

Thomas Hobbes

#2. When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well.

Jack Womack

#3. Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at the height of ebullience and the depth of despair alike that this too shall pass.

John C. Bogle

#4. What is the secret of life?" I asked. "I forget," said Sandra.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're so much fun and they're so delightful and they're so innocent. It just stops your heart every time; I can't get enough of it.

Jann Wenner

#6. The clear suggestion is that there ought not to be civilian control of the military. What have callow noncombatants giving brisk orders to grizzled soldiers? How could Lincoln have fired the slavery-loving Gen. George B. McClellan, or Truman dismissed the glorious Douglas MacArthur?

Christopher Hitchens

#7. I said nothing. If she wasn't careful, everyone would rush out of her life, life out of a burning building.

Lorrie Moore

#8. Thanksgiving is not only being aware of the abundance of good in the world but embracing it.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#9. We fear the calm more than the storm.

Marty Rubin

#10. Poetry in the darkest realm of my mind, blossoms into creations late at night when it is only me of the human kind and my felines sleeping just out of my sight.

Lyn Crain

#11. You don't live in luxury! You are relegated to sleep in the little store room behind the kitchen with the cockroaches and rats and are at the mercy of Mrs. Gupta,' Reena was indignant. 'It's five-star accommodation compared to a mud hut.

Renita D'Silva

#12. Shore of the lake, at the distance of rather more than a league

Mary Shelley

#13. Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

Russel Honore