Venientibus Quotes

#1. Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa.
To the latecomers are left the bones.

Junot Diaz

#2. There are no such things as curses; only people and their decisions

Yvonne Wood

#3. The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself.

Kumail Nanjiani

#4. Life begins at six
at least in the minds of six-year-olds ... In kindergarten you are the baby. In first grade you put down the baby ... Every first grader knows in some osmotic way that this is real life ... First grade is the first step on the way to a place in the grown-up world.

Stella Chess

#5. Accept to die before you live; you shall live free, then accept to live before you die, you shall have a beautiful life

Marcus L. Lukusa

#6. I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals & speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence & there is no psychic drain

Anton Szandor LaVey

#7. I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'

Wavy Gravy

#8. Yes, our eyes may perceive, yet they do not observe; they may believe, yet they do not question; they may receive yet they do not search: they are emptied of desire, with neither hunger nor passion.(Renee Michel)

Muriel Barbery

#9. If you are only what you are,
You at least have a chance
Not to outsmart,
But be on a par with yourself
And that is worth trying.

Dejan Stojanovic