Quartos Quotes

#1. I must not linger on details, daughter, because if we dally, this account may be left unfinished, and no one wants to read hundreds of quartos only to find that the story has no clear ending.

Isabel Allende

#2. We get on now with a lighter step, and quicker: ridicule is found to be more convincing than argument, imaginary agonies touch more than true sorrows, and monthly novels convince, when learned quartos fail to do so.

Anthony Trollope

#3. Nothing else seems out of the ordinary for a horrible haunted forest being inhabited by a child eating witch.

Seanan McGuire

#4. Christ is worth all, or he is worth nothing.

George Whitefield

#5. Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. We become so absorbed in our flaws and faults that we forget that it is better to be a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. To have flaws is beauty in itself, a fact so frightening that we hurry to hide them from sight and tarnish the whole in the process of comparing ourselves to others.

Forrest Curran

#7. I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.

Eden Sher

#8. Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

Tom Stoppard

#9. The species or nature with which we make our choices is fallen, sinful, selfish, and stupid; and we cannot by our own power attain the deepest and final end of our desires, union with God, eternal happiness. Thus,

Peter Kreeft

#10. I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable self.

Muriel Barbery

#11. I believe, and always have, that America must engage - not retreat - in the world.

Chuck Hagel

#12. It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life

Robin S. Sharma

#13. I hope that Belief never is made to appear mandatory.

E.B. White