Laboro Quotes

#1. In laboring to be concise, I become obscure.
[Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

Horace

#2. Her selfishness warred mightily with every bit of ethics she had ever learned from the women of her family.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#4. At Watford, Magic is just the air we breathe. It's not what separates us from each other; it's what keeps us together.

Rainbow Rowell

#5. If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

Joseph Sobran

#6. You don't get something for nothing You can't have freedom for free You won't get wise with the sleep still in your eyes No matter what your dreams might be

Bradley J. Birzer

#7. Custom is the great guide to human life.

David Hume

#8. I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars.

John Wycliffe

#9. Love is rarely flawless," Carter pointed out. "Humans delude themselves by thinking it has to be. It is the imperfection that makes love perfect.

Richelle Mead

#10. Yeah, well. You're my best friend, you know, and I love you.

Brendan Halpin

#11. We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.

George F. Kennan

#12. I offered you a choice, and you took it."
I shot him what I hoped was a truly scathing glare. "Some choice. I was dying. Some drunk shot me from a pickup. Why wouldn't I have just woken up with gonorrhea like every other girl of loose moral fiber?

Molly Harper

#13. I believe it's easy to serve God if we learn to hear from Him before we struggle to do things for Him that He never asked us to do.

Joyce Meyer

#14. If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic.

Mickey Kaus