Omnium Quotes

#1. No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend,* the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died.

Anthony Trollope

#2. Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.
[Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#3. We are all compelled to take the same road; from the urn of death, shaken for all, sooner or later the lot must come forth.
[Lat., Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium
Versatur urna serius, ocius
Sors exitura.]

Horace

#4. Patria est communis omnium parens.
Our country is the common parent of all.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#5. He'd said he was in love with her. And that just filled her up and emptied her out again. It made her want to shake, it made her want to weep. It made her want to hold onto him as if her life depended on it.

Nora Roberts

#6. I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, ...

Ian McEwan

#7. The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

Nic Pizzolatto

#8. What you have to do, you do with play. The universe is God's play.

Joseph Campbell

#9. Elias Ashmole, a seventeenth-century book collector and alchemist whose books and papers had come to the Bodleian from the Ashmolean Museum in the nineteenth century, along with the number 782.

Deborah Harkness

#10. Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.

Annie Lennox

#11. Research is creating new knowledge.

Neil Armstrong

#12. Can a spear divine the Eternal Will?

James Stephens

#13. So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.

Paul Begala