Simpliciter Quotes

#1. 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

#2. If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right?

Henry Rollins

#3. Each person carries an entire world within himself, and everything exists twice: once the way it is, the other the way he perceives it with his own eyes and feelings.

Janusz Korczak

#4. Is anything too hard for the Lord? (Genesis 18:14)

Anonymous

#5. It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away.

Michael Arlen

#6. People usually are the happiest at home.

William Shakespeare

#7. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. And to alter now, cleanly and sanely, I want to shuffle off this loose living randomness: people; reviews; fame; all the glittering scales; and be withdrawn, and concentrated.

Virginia Woolf

#8. I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something unliterary about it.'

Steven Heighton

#9. In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure.

Christopher Hitchens

#10. Stone Court were scenting the air quite impartially, as if Mr. Raffles

George Eliot

#11. Listen to those characters in your head ... sit down and just write a good book.

Timothy Pina

#12. Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.

Tom Chappell

#13. The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on fields wide-eyed and watchful and entirely careless of what was done or thought by the beholders.

Virginia Woolf

#14. The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.

Soren Kierkegaard