Moriendum Esse Quotes

#1. Learn to say 'I don't know.' If used when appropriate, it will be often.

Donald Rumsfeld

#2. His raspy voice cut through the blackness, darker than the blackness. 'Mine.

Laura Oliva

#3. Life is a great mystery.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. I have a Maltese Shih Tzu. I'm notorious for dressing her up in sweaters.

Caroline Sunshine

#5. I want out of each and every one of you is a hard target search, of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area.

Tommy Lee Jones

#6. I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.
[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]

Cormac McCarthy

#7. It's the worst when you're kissing someone who's not a good kisser, and you're trying to make it look good, but you feel like you're just working on your own.

Drew Barrymore

#8. Five hundred years from now, who'll know the difference?!

Charles M. Schulz

#9. I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

Tony Campolo

#10. I'm really sorry for people growing up right now, because they have some cockeyed idea that they can get by with their eyes closed; the cane they're tapping is money, and that won't take them in the right direction.

Grace Paley

#11. I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want.

Joe Mantello

#12. When he pretends to flee, do not pursue.

Sun Tzu

#13. God's Law of Cause and Effect: Your rewards in life will always be equal to the amount and quality of service rendered, in the long run.

Denis Waitley