Top 17 Potestas Quotes
#1. I cannot blame them, in truth, for desiring ... But they were like children, who have only just begun to grasp the idea of a thing. And like children, they had no notion of laboring to create, but only of having ... and no thought given to the cost, to others, of taking it.
Jacqueline Carey
#2. It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.
Saint Francis De Sales
#3. Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.
Terence McKenna
#5. Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#7. Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
Franz Grillparzer
#8. I'm so sorry, I continue. And it's like the last word is a hurdle and I can't leap it, because something in the word snags my voice and suddenly I am giving everything up. I am letting my shoulders fall and I am feeling myself become the absence, feeling myself become that gasp and sob.
David Levithan
#9. Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.
Minoru Yamasaki
#10. Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes rule. Had I stumbled on the lair of dangerous plant geneticists?
Ben Aaronovitch
#11. She felt loose and free and light in a universe without purpose.
Philip Pullman
#12. If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.
E. Lockhart
#13. From: Christian Grey
Subject: &*%$&*&*
Date: August 23 2011 11:23
To: Anastasia Grey
Believe me when I say there are a great many things he'd like to do to your ass right now. Firing you is not one of them.
Christian Grey
CEO & Ass man, Grey Enterprises Holdings, Inc.
E.L. James
#14. There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.
[Lat., Nihil est quod credere de se
Non possit, quum laudatur dis aequa potestas.]
Juvenal
#15. I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?
Matt Lauer
#16. Nothing holds love together like shared vice or collusive perversion.
Glen Duncan
#17. The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
Kurt Vonnegut
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