Sectere Quotes

#1. Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip.
[Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]

Horace

#2. If we choose to be no more than clods of clay, then we shall be used as clods of day for braver feet to tread on.

Marie Corelli

#3. I have been asked this question over and over again: 'Dr. Jeremiah, do you think God is finished with America?' But that is the wrong question. The right question is: 'Is America finished with God?'

David Jeremiah

#4. All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life

John Cheever

#5. I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

Albert Einstein

#6. Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."

Luis Walter Alvarez

#7. Europeans used to be proud to be the advanced form of democracy. Now they're definitely a little bit ashamed because we are seeing that finally, the bond that we had, it was money.

Miguel Gomes

#8. Wherever you are, be all there.

Craig Groeschel

#9. A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print

Gregory Rabassa

#10. It is the wonderful paradox," he continued, "that the best way to achieve happiness for oneself is to give happiness to others.

David Michie

#11. Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

Daphne Du Maurier

#12. He who teaches you how to plant has given you more than he who has given you a hundred roses.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.

Benjamin Spock