The Virtu Quotes

#1. From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#2. There is no protection against slander.

Moliere

#3. My solo novel 'Icons' was optioned by Alcon Entertainment, the folks who made the 'Beautiful Creatures' movie, and that's gotten as far as a script, but no news yet.

Margaret Stohl

#4. The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That's really what new alchemy's all about.

Fred Alan Wolf

#5. As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem.

Edward Hirsch

#6. When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.

Shimon Peres

#7. 'You like jealousy. You like knowing people want you.'
He wasn't talking about sex, and my heart slowed a little. 'Is it not natural to want to be liked?'
'That ain't what you want. It's like you got to have everybody's heart, and if they don't give it, you rip it out and watch it bleed.'

Sarah Monette

#8. Honestly, I don't remember the last time I had a dream. I don't really sleep often enough to be able to have any dreams.

Rob Kardashian

#9. If we are not one, we are not in the true sense of the word the disciples of the Lord Jesus.

Brigham Young

#10. Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. I'm trying to find out where we are going. Olivia. I already know you love me." I glared up at him in shock and he shrugged. "The fact that you can't say it - is a problem. I love you.

Tarryn Fisher

#12. In other people's books, I tend to love the really daredevil-y characters. I love Finnick from 'The Hunger Games.' And I think, probably, my favorite character of all time is Sherlock Holmes.

Cassandra Clare

#13. A Polish man bought a zebra for a pet. What does he call the zebra? Spot!

Henny Youngman

#14. Terrible and ancient and scarred with the endless cold of space, the terrible and ancient things glistened with frozen moisture and colors played across the surface of the skin, colors that were never meant to be seen on earth.

Simon Kurt Unsworth

#15. I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils

Leonardo Da Vinci