Ipsa Quotes

#1. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Ray Bradbury

#2. The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practise.

Assata Shakur

#3. Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur.
If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

Horace

#4. The love of pelf increases with the pelf.
[Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.]

Juvenal

#5. If consumers were more empowered, they would take more responsibility for their health.

Anne Wojcicki

#6. I'm probably more personal when I'm acting than at any other time. More open, more direct. Because it allows me to be something that I can't always feel comfortable with when I'm living my own life, you know? Because it's make- believe.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#7. The very life which we enjoy is short.
[Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]

Sallust

#8. I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.

Nancy Kerrigan

#9. Scriptura sacra mentis oculis quasi quoddam speculum opponitur, ut interna nostra facies in ipsa videatur. Holy scripture is placed before the eyes of our mind like a mirror, so that we may view our inner face therein.

Pope Gregory I

#10. If I were a flowerpot, I would've checked my hair.

~Carter Kane

Rick Riordan

#11. Ipsum Nomen Res Ipsa: The Name Itself is the Thing Itself. I.N.R.I.: Isis, Apophis, Osiris: IAO.

Robert Anton Wilson

#12. Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

Baron De Montesquieu

#13. My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. - Aunt Frances

Alice Hoffman

#14. Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.

Hunter S. Thompson

#15. Nobody has to be ashamed of being a Hoosier.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#16. Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said that if he had eight hours to cut down a tree, he'd spend several of these hours sharpening his ax.

Irvin D. Yalom

#17. Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

Orville Dewey