Particulam Quotes

#1. The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath.
[Lat., Quin corpus onustum
Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque praegravat una
Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.]

Horace

#2. Across the field, Carter's voice yelled: "STAHP!" I guess stahp is actually a word in Ancient Egyptian. Who knew?

Rick Riordan

#3. I moved to Kentish Town from Chelsea in 1983, partly because I had a lot of friends already living in the area and because it took an hour off the journey to my house in Suffolk. It has a villagey feel, and it's still a very mixed community, which I like.

Diana Quick

#4. The particularity of our problems can be made bearable only through the recognition of our universal humanity. We suffer uniquely, but we survive the same way.

Cheryl Strayed

#5. The [Confederate] Flag is - literally - sewed division. People claim it means different things to different people, but it harkens back to the pro-slavery side of the war.

Greg Gutfeld

#6. The more stupid and unlucky man is,
the more claims he makes to the woman.

Coco Chanel

#7. I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

Ziyi Zhang

#8. Stop looking for the biggest crowd, and start looking for the right crowd.

Phil Cooke

#9. But some vows are made for good reason, and some are made for pride.

Christina Dodd

#10. Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

Ricardo Lagos

#11. You cannot change the stripes of a leopard.

Emmitt Smith

#12. Anyone who wishes to be understood had better be sure he has made himself intelligible.

Ayn Rand

#13. It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.

Gertrude Stein