Placuit Quotes

#1. Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.
(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)

Horace

#2. Peter smiles at me, shaking his head. Behind the smile I can see he's scared as I am. Blood drips onto his lips. "You never did listen to my orders," he said.
I smiled back. "Aren't you glad you'll have company?

Dan Krokos

#3. Without such knowledge, it is unlikely that a ridiculously small number of Britons could have succeeded in governing, oppressing and exploiting so many hundreds of millions of Indians for two centuries. Throughout

Yuval Noah Harari

#4. Yes, older drivers are more likely to injure themselves and others when they get behind the wheel. But if you take that away, that is really the last lifeline a lot of elderly people have.

Tucker Carlson

#5. Saying 'I love you' only takes seconds, but proving it takes a lifetime.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. I'm scared." It was something I'd never said out loud. "I'm scared he'll let me down ... or that he won't want me. And I figure maybe it's easier if I just don't give him the chance.

Kody Keplinger

#7. Never agree with a man who insults you.

Suzanne Rindell

#8. Nixon had sought the treatment of a psychiatrist throughout the 1950s.

Mike Stone

#9. We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and 'natural' character of the most monstrous inequalities.

Alain Badiou

#10. When a culture vanishes, humanity is the loser.

Rohinton Mistry

#11. My general approach to opposition is where the government is getting something right, we should say so. And where we disagree with them, we should say so, too.

Douglas Alexander

#12. The discrepancy between what was expected and what has been observed has grown over the years, and we're straining harder and harder to fill the gap.

Jeremiah P. Ostriker

#13. A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

#14. When you're fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, you're gonna believe them. And when you're fifteen don't forget to look before you fall. In your life you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team. I didn't know it at fifteen.

Taylor Swift

#15. smiling a smile full of things restrained

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie