Rusticus Quotes

#1. From Rusticus . . . I learned to read carefully and not be satisfied with a rough understanding of the whole, and not to agree too quickly with those who have a lot to say about something." - MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 1.7.3

Ryan Holiday

#2. Leo was the only one who had never petitioned Francie for a loan using The Nest as collateral. Jack and Melody and Bea had all asked at one time that she consider an earlier dispersal, but she stubbornly refused.Until Leo's accident.

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

#3. Shall I project a world?

Thomas Pynchon

#4. I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.

Fred Durst

#5. Garlic is as good as ten mothers.

Les Blank

#6. Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the land of their birth, while they are furnished with little material on the people and institutions that are truly American.

Luther Standing Bear

#7. N OTHING is done in the interest of welfare for the common good where there is money to be made.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#8. Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first 100 days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules - unchain Wall Street. They're gonna put y'all back in chains.

Joe Biden

#9. The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked.

Norbert Wiener

#10. Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.

Heather Brewer

#11. The less you know, the better you sleep.

Anthony O'Neill

#12. To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.

Todd Gitlin

#13. Through the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber, Past the wan-mooned abysses of night, I have lived o'er my lives without number, I have sounded all things with my sight.

H.P. Lovecraft