Libellus Quotes

#1. Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.

Edward Coke

#2. I take the threat of terrorism very seriously, and no one is more committed to hunting down terrorists and bringing them to justice, wherever they live, than I am.

Harry Reid

#3. The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. Long ago I abandoned my masterpiece a roll of paper thirty yards long which I filled completely with minute handwriting in my dungeon years ago It vanished when the Bastille fell it vanished as everything written everything thought and planned will disappear

Peter Weiss

#5. Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#6. She re-read his email four times, feeling offended and breathless, like he had casually grabbed her head and stuffed it into a pile of wet leaves.

Molly Ringle

#7. If I refuse to step out in a gift or skill that God has given me because I'm afraid or lazy, I may be behaving the same way as the steward with one talent.

Bob Lotich

#8. We are all eccentrics in our dreams. Lunatics, even.

Jonathan Hull

#9. Let every human heart be open at spark of the light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Let me be cursed, let me be base and vile, but let me also kiss the hem of that garment in which my God is clothed; let me be following the devil at the same time, but still I am also your son, Lord, and I love you, and I feel a joy without which the world cannot stand and be.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. Life has a way of turning things around. Those who mourn well know this. As a result, they also live well--with courage and curiosity.

Mari Ruti