Top 29 Quotes About Rerum
#1. I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.
Samuel Johnson
#2. Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Lucky is he who has been able to understand the causes of things Virgil, Georgics, Book 2
Robert Galbraith
#4. It must not be claimed that anyone can sense time by itself apart from the movement of things. LUCRETIUS, De rerum natura1
Carlo Rovelli
#5. He is not poor who has the use of necessary things.
[Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]
Horace
#6. The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent.
[Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#7. He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas
Virgil
#8. In De Rerum Natura, Lucretius pointed out a very central truth concerning the examined life. That is, that the man of science who concerns himself solely with science, who cannot enjoy and be enriched by art, is a misshapen man. An incomplete man.
William Styron
#9. Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything.
Ovid
#10. Fallaces sunt rerum speciaes. The appearances of things are deceptive.
Wendy Wallace
#11. Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles.
[Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]
Horace
#12. Tempus edax rerum.
Time that devours all things.
Ovid
#13. For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#14. The changeful change of circumstances.
[Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
Tacitus
#15. We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out.
Thomas McGuane
#16. Truth be told, if Islam and the Sixth Mass Extinction continue on their path unhindered, chances are worlds will collide with high casualty rates...
Anita B. Sulser PhD
#17. The verdict of the Greek people renders the troika a thing of the past for our common European framework.
Alexis Tsipras
#18. George Clooney is actually a huge prankster. That's sort of his jam. I had no idea.
Britt Robertson
#19. Most adults have a vocabulary of around 60,000 words, meaning that children must learn 10 to 20 words a day between the ages of eight months and 18 years. And yet the most frequent 100 words account for 60% of all conversations. The most common 4000 words account for 98% of conversation.
David Miller
#20. I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.
Viggo Mortensen
#21. I don't think I've ever heard him laugh before. It's a soothing sound, both tender and unsure, reminiscent of someone who used to laugh more.
Marie Lu
#22. I got girls that can cook, I got girls that can clean, I got girls that'll do anything between.
Hank Williams Jr.
#23. I was one of those kids who had never seen an indie film before I got to college. If it wasn't a big, huge tentpole movie, or if it wasn't on the radio, I hadn't experienced it.
John Krasinski
#24. We betray all that is beautiful in us by trying to explain it.
Marty Rubin
#25. Everybody gets married. It's something you have to do, like dying.
Rita Mae Brown
#26. I received a phone call from the chief executive of my principal sponsor [Marlboro], who actually told me that it would be in the interests of the sport if I started to lose races. Which, I mean, just blew my mind.
Ron Dennis
#27. Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.
William James
#28. It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter.
Sara Sheridan
#29. Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Millicent Fenwick
