Quaestio Insularis Quotes

#1. No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.

Henry Ward Beecher

#2. Low and grovelling thoughts of God must be given up; doubting and despairing must be removed; and self-seeking and carnal delights must be forsaken. Across these deep valleys a glorious causeway of grace must be raised.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#3. Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

Emile M. Cioran

#4. Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself

Walter Scott

#5. Have you ever noticed how good things go to those who hate?

Sol Luckman

#6. In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must see; he who has seen only the misery of woman has seen nothing; he must see the misery of the child.

Victor Hugo

#7. You just realize that you can't turn a lefthand corner in a right posture without exposing some part of your body, and so it was really me just noticing the exposure I had, and it made me start doing and practicing the switching.

Steven Seagal

#8. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett

Pema Chodron

#9. She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state

Thiruvalluvar

#10. The summer had been like a dream, some parts of it a nightmare, but overall a good dream. Magic.

Elizabeth Kirke

#11. Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.

William Shenstone

#12. I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.

Agnes Varda

#13. Pop music is awesome, but I like to keep changing it up.

Chaz Bundick

#14. This place is a regular whispering-gallery.

Arnold Bennett

#15. Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can't see a thought, you can't measure, weigh, nor taste it- but thoughts are the most real things in the Galaxy.

Robert A. Heinlein