Terretur Quotes

#1. The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing.
[Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba
Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]

Ovid

#2. The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.

George Washington

#3. I don't like raccoons. They look ... shifty, with their little burglar masks and everything. Also, they carry rabies. Can I catch rabies? Probably not. All the same, it sounds gruesome - and I think we all know that cute, fuzzy woodland creatures are not to be trusted on general principle.

Cherie Priest

#4. Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portray. You don't have to go see it if you don't want to, so don't go.

Tobin Bell

#5. If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.

Aaron Levie

#6. How much choice the animals technically had was far less important than how much choice they felt they had

Sheena Iyengar

#7. History
its what those bitter old men write.

Jackie Kennedy

#8. I declare the 22nd Olympic Winter Games open.

Shani Davis

#9. Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure.

Umberto Eco

#10. You are always better off to read a book, anyway, than to meet the person behind it.

Matthew Pearl

#11. Ribbing, moss, seed, and garter are all balanced and combine the yin and yang of knitting

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#12. It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.

Miles Davis