Quoque Quotes

#1. The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous.
[Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum:
Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]

Ovid

#2. The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath.
[Lat., Quin corpus onustum
Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque praegravat una
Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.]

Horace

#3. The Feynman quip is not without a philosopher's tu quoque: "most scientists tend to understand little more about science than fish about hydrodynamics" (Lakatos 1978:62 n.2).

Robert Nola

#4. To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#5. Time flaps on the mast--

Virginia Woolf

#6. We're stealing time from those who love us and giving it to those who don't. Our

Phil Callaway

#7. If we don't get the military right nothing else matters.

Benjamin Carson

#8. Big moments happen with the smallest actions, and sometimes it's not until later we connect the dots, but in that instant, I knew that somehow, someway Declan was going to own my heart.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#9. I like desires like children
and their plays
that tease me now and then into
knowing life.

Suman Pokhrel

#10. If your heart, mind, and actions are selfish, they will ultimately divide you, others, or entire [establishments]. When motivation is pure and selfless, it will result in helping bring others together.

A.J. Darkholme

#11. Christ commands his people to love their enemies, because if not, that would rule out pretty much the entire world.

Criss Jami

#12. There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie.

Cecil Parker

#13. It's best to give advice in only two circumstances; when it's requested, and when it's a life threatening situation.

Andy Rooney

#14. Birth, like love, is an energy and a process, happening within a relationship. Both unfold with their own timing, with a uniqueness that can never be anticipated, with a power that can never be controlled, but with an exquisite mystery to be appreciated.

Elizabeth Noble

#15. For now I will play by the rules and go as far as I can with that.

Kiera Cass

#16. Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.

Josemaria Escriva

#17. Tragedy and comedy involve an audience, so they must give--sharing themselves to elicit tears and laughter. Melodrama is not such a strategist. It meets no one's expectation but its internal need to feel.

Yiyun Li

#18. Honestly, I don't read newspapers, magazines, whatever. They're just not part of my lexicon. I don't want to be manipulated, or manipulated about other people's work.

Madonna Ciccone