Respice Quotes

#1. Quidquid agas prudenter agas et respice finem ... Skye was used to hearing this phrase, which Mr. Penderwick translated loosely as look before you leap and please don't do anything crazy.

Jeanne Birdsall

#2. Respice finem; that is to say, in all your actions, look often upon what you would have, as the thing that directs all your thoughts in the way to attain it.

Thomas Hobbes

#3. Once we start writing with a pen, we are not allowed to erase our mistakes, we are forced to deal with it.

Akansh Malik

#4. Being in Christ is both gift and task, privilege and responsibility. Exaggerate the gift, and you risk antinomian complacency; exaggerate the responsibility, and you risk legalistic anxiety.

Kevin J. Vanhoozer

#5. Is thinking small?" asked Isobel. "Small as air." May tapped my head with her finger. "And just as big.

Gordon Dahlquist

#6. Then I looked within my own heart
and there I found Him
He was nowhere else.

Rumi

#7. The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#8. Red wine with fish. That should have told me something.

Sean Connery

#9. Crazy chicks are usually pretty tough.

Darynda Jones

#10. Love is a bonfire. It's every kind word. It's every sincere apology. It's every compromise.

Nessie Q.

#11. This music, transmitted by loud-speakers, made a masterpiece appear like an amateurish attempt at composition by nimcompoop

Paul Hindemith

#12. An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

Francois Truffaut

#13. Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

Eric Nicol