Insipientis Quotes

#1. Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.
[Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. I have come far, but not far enough. It is still a man's world.

Lesley Ann Warren

#3. Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor.

Cory Booker

#4. Jake, you're a dern grasshopper," Augustus said. "You ride in yesterday talking Montana, and today you're talking California.

Larry McMurtry

#5. Faithfulness is a social not a biological law.

Jenny Holzer

#6. He did not say: You will not be assailed, you will not be belabored, you will not be disquieted, but he did said: You will not be overcome.

Julian Of Norwich

#7. Then go after her, Gavin. When you want something this badly, you don't just give up. You fight and fight until you absolutely can't fight anymore. It's in the Blake bloodline, so it should be easy enough for you. Besides, I've never known a more stubborn little bastard in my entire life.

Gail McHugh

#8. When I heard you cry I followed you, and saw you put down your handkerchief, screwed up, with its rage, with its hate, knotted in it.

Virginia Woolf

#9. Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.

Mason Cooley

#10. Life is a daring sacred existence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Green tree. Pretty lady. Car. Car. Truck," she recites, naming out loud almost everything she sees. "Don't mind me, I'm a gabberbox," she chuckles. "A gabberbox?" I ask, confused at her term. "You know, hon, I talk a lot," she explains before breaking into a laugh that is eerily familiar.

John Waters

#12. The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable ... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into the human economy. It was thus possible for traditional cultures to conceive that "to work is to pray." (pg. 258, The Idea of a Local Economy)

Wendell Berry