Quanto Quotes

#1. Up in front, Fritz, as his name was, was driving like a bat out of hell - not exactly something you expected from a butler who looked like he was seven thousand years old.

J.R. Ward

#2. It's a Monday morning, 9:13 a.m. on the dot, and the counter person, Mark J., takes exactly seventeen seconds to acknowledge my presence. He then offers to

Julia Kent

#3. I thought you didn't want to let me go.

Lucy Christopher

#4. We are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#5. There I was, casually wishing that I could stop existing in the same way you'd want to leave an empty room or mute an unbearably repetitive noise.

Allie Brosh

#6. Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender.
[Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se
Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]

Juvenal

#7. Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.

Morihei Ueshiba

#8. The boy planted his hands on his hips and a broad smile lit his face. My name's Peter. Can I play too?

Brom

#9. I started writing to make sense of the world that exists inside my heart

Judy Croome

#10. One of the great things about the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, which my company iRobot designed, is that it's too cheap not to be autonomous.

Rodney Brooks

#11. Vede insieme l'uno e l'altro polo,
Le stelle vaghe e lor viaggio torto;
E vedi, 'I veder nostro quanto e corto.
(You see both poles at once, the travelling stars in their winding courses, and you see just how limited our seeing really is.)

Francesco Petrarca

#12. I don't want fear or cancer to define me, but it's always in the back of your mind.

Ethan Zohn

#13. Ash liked his characters at or over the edge of madness, constructing systems of belief and survival from the fragments of experience available to them.

A.S. Byatt

#14. The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing.
[Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium
Nudus castra peto.]

Horace

#15. Most new ideas are branded as heresy, until a time when, either
through science or technology, they can be proven as truth.

S.E. Meyer

#16. The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants.
[Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
A dis plura feret.]

Horace

#17. As the two of us - past self, my present self - hovered over her bed, I could see each cruel damage written across her skin, beneath her eyes, down into her bones. She was no longer the way she wanted to be remembered. She was already more breath than body.

David Levithan