Nescio Quotes

#1. I'm beating down the Internet as we speak.

T.I.

#2. Morning sunlight filtered through my bedroom window.

Rick Riordan

#3. People should make a stand for the things they love and want to see survive infinite generations.

Aaron Peirsol

#4. The ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion.

Max Weber

#5. Time hath a taming hand.

John Henry Newman

#6. The larks were singing everywhere, a heron flew past, the sky was so high in the trees were wrestling all around the house and the light-- could you catch the light and hug it tight and take it inside you?

Nescio

#7. If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.

Mark Twain

#8. I remember looking around at the girls, the men, the drugs and the money, and wondering how long this utopia could last: the Chinese dream, in its second, prodigal generation.

Susie Gordon

#9. What is love after all but trusting in the unknown.

Marty Rubin

#10. Targeting women is key in developing countries. It allows them to go to school, to say how many children they're going to have, which drives the issue of population and how their children will be educated. Women are the best investments in developing countries.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#11. Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction,

Pope Francis

#12. My thoughts are an ocean, they wash woefully up against their limits.

Nescio

#13. I never pay any attention. I'm sure it's not such a good way to be, but I don't really follow market research.

Anna Wintour

#14. WE WERE kids - but good kids. If I may say so myself. We're much smarter now, so smart it's pathetic.

Nescio

#15. Oh but to write what you think is so amazing- whoosh, whoosh, you don't even know how you're doing it and suddenly there it is, exactly the way it has to be. And when you read it later you're right back in your earlier life again and yet you don't know if you're yourself or someone else.

Nescio

#16. I'm not a poet and I'm not a nature lover and I'm not an Anarchist. I am, thank God, absolutely nothing.

Nescio

#17. Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade

Propertius

#18. And so the little poet poetized away his never-ending poem and even the silliest woman could poetize with him. But they couldn't be together. And maybe that was what made it so beautiful.

Nescio

#19. It seems particularly ironic that a church that at one stage, a long time ago, fought to redefine marriage should now be so opposed to these attempts to redefine marriage.

Andrew Solomon

#20. ...I sit there aimlessly, God's aim is aimlessness.

Nescio

#21. Odi et amo; quare fortasse requiris, nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
(my translation: I hate and I love, you ask why I do this, I do not know, but I feel and I am tormented)

Catullus

#22. Si nemo me queret, scio; si aliqui explicare velim, nescio.
"If no one asks me, I know. If I am asked to explain,I do not know".

Augustine Of Hippo

#23. Koekebakker, I feel so strange inside.' 'Well you certainly smell like jenever,' I said. 'No,' Japi said, ' it's not the jenever. I think my soul is too big.

Nescio

#24. Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune.
[Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]

Horace

#25. (Kiara sees Carlos' bleeding face)"Carlos! Oh my God, what happened?"
"You still recognize me with a busted-up face. That's a good sign, right?

Simone Elkeles