Moriendi Quotes

#1. No one can obtain from the Pope a dispensation for never dying.
[Lat., Nemo impetrare potest a papa bullam numquam moriendi.]

Thomas A Kempis

#2. Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living.

Robert Charles Wilson

#3. Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

Jerry Bridges

#4. O precious is the pause between the winds that come and go, / And sweet the silence of the shores between the ebb and flow.

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

#5. For years I had my hair parted down the middle in a ponytail, tucked down around the sides ... Well, I went and cut the bangs, and I've been wearing them ever since. They say it's my trademark.

Bettie Page

#6. I don't need to publish to make a living.

J.K. Rowling

#7. When you take on a role you try to do as much as possible beforehand to get your mind into it. Just to prepare because it's a daunting prospect to go six months or whatever.

Jesse Eisenberg

#8. There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration.

David Foster Wallace

#9. What she said was something about trusting that everything, no matter how horrible it might seem at the moment, ultimately turns out to be a blessing.

Laurie Viera Rigler

#10. I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

Laurell K. Hamilton

#11. To lose what we never owned might seem an eccentric Bereavement but Presumption has its Affliction as actually as Claim

Emily Dickinson

#12. Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

Salman Rushdie

#13. You must find the ideas that have some promise in them ... It is not enough to just have ideas.

George Edward Woodberry

#14. I never much like thus being told without possibility of reply what I am to think about people whom I know.

Marcel Proust

#15. What I want," he said softly, "is you. Just you.

Sabrina Jeffries

#16. It's amazing that something as simple as a kiss can overpower the worst of worries.

Neal Shusterman

#17. I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement. I don't think the libertarians have it right when it comes to what the Constitution's all about. I don't think they have it right as to what our history is.

Rick Santorum