Muoi Ca Quotes

#1. The one to whom nothing was refused, whose tears were always wiped away by an anxious mother, will not abide being offended.
- De Ira 2.21.6

Seneca.

#2. He had learned something already in the course of his journey. If you carried a closed wooden box, people want to know what is in it.

Marcus Sedgwick

#3. Anyone who is elected mayor of a place called Sin City is allowed to be a drunk.

Bill Maher

#4. It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.

Jean Toomer

#5. Every pleasure is most valued when it is coming to an end.

Seneca.

#6. There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for a world where orphans are not poor and buildings comply with decent fire codes.

Randy Cohen

#7. The sun exactly at noon is exactly [beginning to] go down. And a creature when he is born is exactly [beginning to] die.

Hu Shih

#8. How the hell did he get himself into this position in the first place? Oh, yeah, some little woman approached him in a bar and said she paid him for sex.

Melissa Schroeder

#9. There are definitely people who are stuck in the '60s and there are definitely people who think I am and it's just not true. I was performing for a long time before the '60s and I'll be doing exciting interesting things for along time to come.

Petula Clark

#10. If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essence developing, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age will stimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.

Erik Erikson

#11. I'm asking you to make an adult decision. Are you ready to die, maybe alone, far from home, with no one even knowing what a hero you were? I can't even promise that your lives or your deaths will accomplish victory - Ironfist, p156

Brent Weeks