Vetera Quotes

#1. We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times.
[Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]

Tacitus

#2. Did you enjoy yourself?' I asked.
'Mmm,' he said. 'It was fun, wasn't it?' He wasn't using a knife, but held a fork in his right hand like a child or an American. He smiled.

Gail Honeyman

#3. Because he knew that he was coming for the last time. That morning he had been expelled from the Architectural School of the Stanton Institute of Technology.

Ayn Rand

#4. Almost fifteen months he's been gone, and every day I wake up, I still don't believe this is really happening.

Blake Crouch

#5. As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.

Ben Stein

#6. I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

Ray Stevens

#7. The repeated demand for "justice," incorporated into the names of many Islamist parties, reflects not so much a demand for social equality as a demand for equal treatment under the law.

Francis Fukuyama

#8. Being seen somewhere at 2 a.m. through a "like" or retweet didn't actually fill me.

Hannah Brencher

#9. The sight of the money depressed her, because in such small familiar things the foreign country around her was best expressed.

Philip Larkin

#10. If God is all powerful, can He make a stone so big that He Himself can't lift it?

George Carlin

#11. Fear can't hurt you. When it washes over you, give it no power. it's a snake with no venom.

Maureen Johnson

#12. I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

Elie Wiesel

#13. I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#14. He's a jokester, and that's funny, very funny. Ha-ha. Very funny.

Shaquille O'Neal