Leporum Quotes

#1. Poets can dodge. ("Evening Primrose")

John Collier

#2. Someone who cannot abandon everything cannot achieve anything.

Hajime Isayama

#3. Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
[Lat., Medio de fonte leporum
Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]

Lucretius

#4. Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.

William Gibson

#5. Bet on black. Buy low-debt or no-debt companies. When the economy is in trouble, these companies usually have enough cash on hand to stay out of trouble. And they seldom need to borrow when interest rates are high.

Nancy Dunnan

#6. The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will know.

Hugh Prather

#7. I have a right to be blind sometimes.

Horatio Nelson

#8. You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it.

John Simm

#9. Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.

Robert Jordan

#10. A guy that's really serious about you, he's gotta be talking to you, he's gotta want to have one-on-one, in-your-face interaction. That's how we are.

Steve Harvey

#11. Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live;
Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others.
[Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum;
Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus
Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]

Lucretius

#12. I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#13. Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.

Sibel Edmonds

#14. I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over.

Stanislaw Lem

#15. I find sometimes that if you do too many takes, it starts to become meaningless to me. It is hard to sustain it for me. I don't want to do too many.

Clive Owen

#16. Be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

Jodi Picoult