Labes Quotes

#1. The word 'question' is derived from the Latin quaerere 'to seek,' which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions are useful guides.

Paul A. Kaufman

#2. He was done with every lie he'd ever allowed himself to believe, every lie he'd ever lived, every lie.

Dennis Lehane

#3. Apparently, the pathfinder duck is a psychological archetype in certain cultures.

Michael Leunig

#4. Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. The thing or person you trust in is actually the object of your worship. Look

Edward T. Welch

#6. People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.

Zig Ziglar

#7. He hesitated. Don't you see? You're like a favorite painting. A found masterpiece, I loved both for things remembered and those newly discovered.

Amanda Gray

#8. What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

A.S. Byatt

#9. When two enemies are talking, they're not fighting.

Daryl Davis

#10. Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters.
[Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#11. I told Luke about that night at a time when he was enamored with me, which is the only time you should ever tell anyone something shameful about yourself - when a person is mad enough about you that disgrace is endearing.

Jessica Knoll

#12. Oh God," Jase groaned, rubbing a hand down his jaw. "She's a friend, Dad."
"Uh-huh." His father backed up, picking up the bucket. "Friends with a pretty gal like that, then you're doing something wrong, son.

J. Lynn

#13. It's bizarre. In middle school, I thought girls were running away from me, so when they ask for a picture now, I'm like, 'Really, what?!'

Jacob Artist

#14. Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.

Euripides