Spectat Quotes

#1. No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.
[Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. I don't think anybody should do what they do in hopes of being successful. But I always expect myself to be successful at things. And if I'm not, I feel bad. I don't care for failure. I've failed at a number of things, and it's not my favorite state of mind. So I prefer success.

Michael Feldman

#3. Love is the exception to the law of diminishing returns.

Tommy Wallach

#4. The soul attracted leaned to the Abyss:
It longed for the adventure of Ignorance

Sri Aurobindo

#5. The great climb mountains;
the extraordinary move them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. Since I was 9, I'd been told what to say, what to think.

Willie Aames

#7. No, I don't believe in God, but I respect the fact that you do. Everyone has to have something to believe in.

Stieg Larsson

#8. Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it's worse when you see them wearing dark glasses, having streamers around their necks and a hat on their antlers. Because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot.

Ellen DeGeneres

#9. Firepaw was sure now. It was a ShadowClan warrior, and it was staring straight at him.

Erin Hunter

#10. I guess I let things get me down as far as a person can go, she thought with disgust, and her own scorn warmed her. I won't let it happen again, ever, no matter what comes. Once you get down all the way, the road can only go up.

Alexandra Ripley

#11. If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you.

Ralph Nader

#12. The role that I play as a lone striker, I enjoy it and particularly playing with great players.

Jermain Defoe

#13. Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#14. It was late. Late to start again. Late to realize how many years he'd spent running down the wrong road.

James S.A. Corey

#15. The target of Melanie Thernstrom's The Dead Girl is, I think, an interesting one:

David Shields

#16. All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.

Hugh Casson