Joe Fortes Quotes

#1. I'm a humanist at heart: at the end of the day, we are all human beings.

Chet Faker

#2. On a deeper level, if our sons are learning they are obscene, disgusting, and untrustworthy, is this the best preparation for fatherhood? And is it the best preparation for becoming a mother
to feel this way about her son?

Warren Farrell

#3. Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).
[Lat., Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona
Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles
Urguentur ignotique sacro.]

Horace

#4. Miseria fortes viros, Ronan," Adam said.
When he said "Ronan," it meant: Ronan.

Maggie Stiefvater

#5. The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.

Tarjei Vesaas

#6. Her mother always said that dressing properly could save one's life

Susana Fortes

#7. Sometimes destiny switches the cards on you so that while you're busy escaping from the dog, you find yourself facing the wolf

Susana Fortes

#8. To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren't expecting to.

Susana Fortes

#9. Without faith nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

Mary McLeod Bethune

#10. It's never too late to right a wrong.

Emily Acker

#11. but he just keeps showing up in my head, forcing me to work harder whenever I feel like quitting, forcing me to be better.

Randy Pausch

#12. If you can explain, then it's not the Dream. The dream can never be put into words, it can only be felt through the heart

Sarvesh Jain

#13. We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?

Tom Stoppard

#14. All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.

Baron D'Holbach

#15. Fortes fortuna adiuvat, Marcello had said to his men. Fortune favors the brave, the bold.

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#16. Bobby sips his coffee. If there wasn't coffee on this earth, I'd be dead.

Ned Vizzini

#17. Hesitation will get you killed.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#18. I used to think that if I were a certain kind of person I would spend all my time creating something beautiful. Well, it turns out I am, and I am.

Jason Letts

#19. Yes, and they'll pay. I promise. But you can't throw away your life, suffering for those who are no longer with you. You have to move on, my sweet. Leave the revenge to me. It is what I am good at.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#20. Fear isn't a bad travel companion. Sometimes, it saves your life.

Susana Fortes

#21. Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Seneca.

#22. My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear.

Harry Houdini

#23. Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare - the brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone

Tacitus

#24. Sometimes, staying alive solely depends on keeping your head in place and your senses alert

Susana Fortes

#25. Sacrilege takes strange forms in the young.

Edward Bond

#26. We always fall in love with a story, not a name or a body but what is inscribed in the man.

Susana Fortes

#27. All that interior violence and complication to defend themselves from the very tenderness.

Susana Fortes