Succumbere Quotes

#1. I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.

David Mitchell

#2. I've had quite a lot of bad experiences with Japanese sweets. I reckon, Japanese ... they can do most things really well but sweets, they're a bit dodgy.

Ian Graham

#3. Rani, too, was perpetuating memories. Harappa the martyr, the demigod, lived on in his daughter's thoughts; but no two sets of memories ever match, even when their subject is the same (...)

Salman Rushdie

#4. I've been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'
But I don't care! I'm still here!

Langston Hughes

#5. The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live? There are different modes of survival. But all are not equally honorable.

B.R. Ambedkar

#6. To maintain order in your bureaucratic life, you more or less have to stay home; go away for any length of time and you're always likely to run afoul of some agency or other.

Michel Houellebecq

#7. I realized that this was my life, and there was nothing I could do about it. I couldn't fight the tide, so I
decided to float along.

David Levithan

#8. What I did was sit down with the Washington State officials, with the historic preservation people, with the tribe, the local community, the port of Port Angeles, and we worked this thing out, and we protected the tribe's interest.

Norm Dicks

#9. Gemma told me that women like being courted, so please read the following reasons that you should marry me. (I only included five. I didn't want to overwhelm you.) And yes, I realize this isn't a traditional courtship. It'll work anyway; I'm irresistible.

Elizabeth Hunter

#10. The secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.

Cynthia Ozick

#11. I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

Derek Jacobi

#12. I'm not very good with drink recipes. If I'm entertaining, I like to come up with a house drink for the evening, one thing I'll make for the whole evening of the whole month.

Amy Sedaris

#13. Work. Don't Think. Relax.

Ray Bradbury

#14. He was thunder and lightning and rain, and she was the earth and flowers that drank up the storm.

Sabrina Jeffries

#15. The pros really like all the new people playing poker because they love the dead money; but when the money wins they don't like that very much at all.

Chris Moneymaker

#16. But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself.

Ally Carter