Quiescendi Quotes

#1. Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest.
[Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago?
Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.]

Ovid

#2. With great influence comes great responsibility.

Melanie Iglesias

#3. The more harried a customer, the more they purchased precooked or frozen food, the more likely they were to be poor. And I knew they were poor because of the clothes they wore or because they purchased their food with food stamps.

J.D. Vance

#4. dropsy. He had been subject to spasms, and in consequence of

Charles Greville

#5. Tender Ember
... Barred and branded
to be forever unloved
I was a tender ember
seeking solace from above ...

Muse

#6. One of the difficult things, especially about blogging, is that you put all of your personal out there, into the political. And what's been difficult, for me at least, is trying to keep some of the personal for myself.

Jessica Valenti

#7. And I served as an officer in the army."
"Very impressive. I've been told that war is boredom interspersed with violence and terror.

Julie Anne Long

#8. And that's when I heard the whisper in my heart's ear: It's not about your childhood. It's about who you are!

C. JoyBell C.

#9. If we remain determined to shape a new and better world of separate, sovereign nations, this new century will be a happier one.

Alan Caruba

#10. Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life.

Jeffrey Eugenides