Linguaque Quotes

#1. When the body is assailed by the strong force of time and the limbs weaken from exhausted force, genius breaks down, and mind and speech fail.
[Lat., Ubi jam valideis quassatum est viribus aevi
Corpus, et obtuseis ceciderunt viribus artus,
Claudicat ingenium delirat linguaque mensque.]

Lucretius

#2. The phony surrender's over; the ceasefire has ended. The final fight for the Republic has begun.

Marie Lu

#3. It wasn't really fair. He was only sorta human!

Shelly Laurenston

#4. A drunk doesn't try to stand up; a drunk tries not to fall down.

Matthew McConaughey

#5. Looking down at the Chinese officer who was trying to gather his entrails with his hands. Suriyawong had the irrational thought that the man ought really to wash his organs before jamming them back into his abdomen. It was so unsanitary.

Orson Scott Card

#6. There will be no peace until the violence is done. Peace is inaccessible without the violence, because violence is righteousness in action.

Adam Nicolson

#7. Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.

Florence Nightingale

#8. It has become accepted doctrine that we must attempt to study the whole man. Actually we cannot study even a whole tree or a whole guinea pig. But it is a whole tree and a whole guinea pig that have survived and evolved, and we must make the attempt.

Gardner Murphy

#9. Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.

E.B. White

#10. We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. Enough is never enough.

Debasish Mridha

#12. My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

Joan Jett

#13. If suffering can be transformed into creativity ... I want to try it.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#14. God take what He would, she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who gave her freedom when it didn't mean a thing.

Toni Morrison

#15. When a couple decides to divorce, they should inform both sets of parents before having a party and telling all their friends. This is not only courteous but practical. Parents may be very willing to pitch in with comments, criticism, and malicious gossip of their own to help the divorce along.

P. J. O'Rourke

#16. Want to save lives, but art, like the stories you want to write ... that's the kind of stuff that makes life worth living.

Linda Kage