Parturiunt Montes Quotes

#1. What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born.
[Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?
Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]

Horace

#2. There is a bird in a poem by T. S. Eliot who says that mankind cannot bear very much reality; but the bird is mistaken. A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#3. There's nowhere more important for me to be," he said as he gently tugged my head back by my hair. "I would go anywhere, everywhere, just to be with you.

Emma Nichols

#4. I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.

William Faulkner

#5. Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.

Richard Rohr

#6. It's well known that I play aggressively. When I'm not doing that, I'm not doing my job.

Hines Ward

#7. If you see something out there that is bullshit, you can replace it with something that is not.

Priceonomics

#8. Stupidity is not ascribed to gender.

Joanna Shupe

#9. Happiness never decreased by being shared.

Gautama Buddha

#10. Principled antipluralism and the commitment to "direct representation" explain another feature of populist politics

Jan-Werner Muller

#11. The death has an only color.

Sabrina Benulis

#12. It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#13. The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of the meditation knowing things ... things that are inexpressible.

Frederick Lenz

#14. If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays ...

Glenn Reynolds