Lambeus Quotes

#1. True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.

Ralph Cudworth

#2. True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.

Peter Kreeft

#3. It's only physical, she reminded herself. Just lust. Some kind of twisted, mutual escape valve. And those physical things, with no love or respect or loyalty to bind and preserve them, had a short shelf life. They were limited-time offers. Three months, tops.

Jess Riley

#4. Never complete. Never whole.
White skin and an African soul.

Michelle Frost

#5. Never underestimate the naughtiness factor.

Eowyn Wood

#6. I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.

Diane Lane

#7. Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Natalie Portman

#8. I'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write things, and I want people to see them more."

Lena Dunham

#9. The cemetery was vanity transmogrified into stone. Instead of growing more sensible in death, the inhabitants of the cemetery were sillier than they had been in life.

Milan Kundera

#10. Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

Susan Sontag

#11. The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there ... Not the other way around!

John Cleese

#12. You put Govart,' said Damen, 'in a cell with Laurent?' 'Yes.' Guion spread his hands.

C.S. Pacat

#13. Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark."
"Nat Parson's a gobshite."
Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite.

Joanne Harris

#14. The fear of climatic catastrophes is an ancient one and not unlike our fear of strangers. In the past, people believed that the climate almost always changes for the worse, and only rarely for the better - God's punishment for sinful behavior.

Hans Von Storch

#15. When the Internet really first started to hit, people felt this would be the death blow: after suburbs and long commutes and television and the death of the family dinner, this would be the last straw that would totally break society.

Alex Steffen