Quotes About Fecit

#1. Fear in the world first created the gods.
[Lat., Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.]

Statius

#2. And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
[Lat., Itidemque ut saepe jam in multis locis,
Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni.]

Plautus

#3. In every human undertaking there is something which is not in our power and does not come within our calculations; the wish to win this for oneself is the origin of the gods. "Primus in orbe Deos fecit timor" is an old and true saying of Petronius.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#4. What is our praise or pride but to imagine excellence and try to make it? What does it say over the door of heaven; but, homo (sapiens) fecit?

Richard Wilbur

#5. What we see is not always what exists.

Paulo Coelho

#6. Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path.

Paulo Coelho

#7. That was the glory of man - to nurture and maintain knowledge.

Paulo Coelho

#8. Everything depends on which path you take.

Paulo Coelho

#9. Sometimes you have to do things when sad things happen.

Mitch Albom

#10. Wars are won from a wink, a gesture, an event that transpired a millennium before the battle. Humanity has always been saved by small acts; the ones where someone gained a piece of their own puzzle, not the ones where a hero stood prodigious on a battlefield.

Sarah Noffke

#11. Scenery without solace is meaningless.

Mitch Albom

#12. There are no random acts.

Mitch Albom

#13. Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love.

Paulo Coelho

#14. March is a month of considerable frustration - it is so near spring and yet across a great deal of the country the weather is still so violent and changeable that outdoor activity in our yards seems light years away.

Thalassa Cruso

#15. What is outside is harder to change than what is inside.

Paulo Coelho

#16. Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits.

Paulo Coelho

#17. The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it - and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.

Upton Sinclair

#18. One withers, another grows.

Mitch Albom

#19. In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love.

Paulo Coelho

#20. Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.

Paulo Coelho

#21. Why do so many people chose to spend their whole life destroying paths they didn't even want to follow, instead of following the one path that would lead them somewhere.

Paulo Coelho

#22. Right, from now on, whenever you want to find out about something, plunge straight in.

Paulo Coelho

#23. Lost love is still love.

Mitch Albom

#24. Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect.

Paulo Coelho

#25. What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.

Rumi

#26. The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, 'You saved my dad's life.'

Dick Cavett

#27. Life is an act of faith.

Paulo Coelho

#28. You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.

Paulo Coelho

#29. One: I am proud to say that my vampires do not sparkle.
Two: I feel like in literature that we've gone [this way] towards the kissing vampires side of the needle. I think it's time we go back towards the killing vampires side of the needle.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#30. Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God.

Paulo Coelho