Quotes About Vitae

#1. It won't be long,' said Philippa cheerfully, her mother's ring in her voice. 'You know what Bess says. There's nothing in this world a drop of aqua-vitae in a sheep's bladder won't cure. Stop the Somervilles with a knife! It needs artillery.' And she blew her nose hard.

Dorothy Dunnett

#2. Reverence for life, veneratio vitae, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.

Albert Schweitzer

#3. Taceant Colloquia. Effugiat risus. Hic locus est ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitae. "Let conversation stop. Let laughter cease," Luke read aloud. "Here is the place where the dead delight to teach the living.

Cassandra Clare

#4. When alchemists first learned how to distill spirits, they called it aqua vitae, the water of life, and far from considering it the work of the devil, they thought the discovery was divinely inspired.

Gene Logsdon

#5. Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

#6. The tedium vitae so constant in antiquity was due to the fact that the outstanding individual was what others could not be; the inspiration of modern times will be that any man who finds himself, religiously speaking, has only achieved what every one can achieve.

Soren Kierkegaard

#7. I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.

Junot Diaz

#8. There was a time when papal encyclicals were treated as virtual pronouncements of papal infallibility. There are still a small minority of Catholics who cite Pope Paul VI's 1968 document Humanae Vitae - which outlawed artificial birth control - as the word of God.

John Cornwell

#9. The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue.
[Lat., Semita certe
Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]

Juvenal

#10. School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#11. Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#12. Urges do not matter; only actions do. A warrior is as a warrior does. At

Dan Millman

#13. In the name of peace
They waged the wars
ain't they got no shame

Nikki Giovanni

#14. Queegqueg no care what god made him shark ... wedder Fejee god or Nantucket god; but de god what made him shark must be one dam Ingin.

Herman Melville

#15. In writing this book, I send out signals, like a lighthouse beacon in whose power to illuminate the darkness, alas, I have no faith. But I live in hope.

Patrick Modiano

#16. If we have a bitcoin universe, you don't get to print money for war. You don't get to have money for a prison/industrial complex. You don't get money for a war on drugs. You have to ask the people.

Stefan Molyneux

#17. I don't have a lot of thrilling anecdotes about my career or personal life. All the stuff that is interesting is private and I wouldn't want people to know.

Natalie Merchant

#18. Women, churchgoers, and conservative were more likely than men, nonchurch goers, and liberals to disagree with the reductionist (neural) account of human life.

Andrew Ferguson

#19. Life is a mirror of your consistent thoughts.

Napoleon Hill

#20. Dragons were dangerous in the sky. Of course, they were dangerous on the ground too. Just less dangerous. In the same way that a sword is less dangerous so long as it's pointed at someone else.

Brandon Sanderson

#21. I'm about as normal as Norman Bates.

Eminem

#22. Your LinkedIn profile should leave no room for doubt about the kind of job you're looking for and why you're the best person for that position.

Melanie Pinola

#23. Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die.

Dorothea Benton Frank

#24. A huge number of jobs that are filled are never advertised to the public, or if they are, they're filled by people who have a connection to the employer.

Melanie Pinola

#25. You think it hurts your feelings that girls talk about you behind your back, until they tell you to your face. And they each wanted a turn. Every time, it started with 'girlfriend' and ended with 'bitch.

Jennifer Echols

#26. 'Dirty Jobs' is a fun, simple little show with huge themes under it. For me, it's penance, it's redemption, it's a sweaty mess.

Mike Rowe

#27. Make sure your LinkedIn profile has a targeted headline. Not only should the headline clearly state your career focus, it's also the most important place to add a keyword or two, because this influences how you appear in search results

Melanie Pinola

#28. Your LinkedIn profile must include keywords for specific skills that match your desired job.

Melanie Pinola

#29. The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.

June Jordan

#30. Using porn to guide sexual activity, is like using Jackass to model behaviour.

Merlyn Gabriel Miller