Virgile Quotes

#1. Go litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye,
Ther God thi makere yet, er that he dye,
So sende myght to make in som comedye!
But litel book, no makyng thow n'envie,
But subgit be to alle poesye;
And kis the steppes where as thow seest pace
Virgile, Ovide, Omer, Lucan, and Stace.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#2. Victory does not come to men who listen to their fears.

Bernard Cornwell

#3. The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

#4. Within, there were several ponderous brazen-bound volumes of medieval date, a thin manuscript of yellowing parchment, and two portraits whose faces had been turned to the wall, as if it were unlawful for even the darkness of the sealed closet to behold them.

Clark Ashton Smith

#5. That's how risk works. You don't know it's the right choice until you're freefalling, and even then you still have butterflies - but at least you were the one to take that step over the ledge.

Rachel Van Dyken

#6. I think we should take a break, fill our little tummies and drink up.

James Dashner

#7. Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one's faith.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#8. The first noble truth says simply that it's part of being human to feel discomfort.

Pema Chodron

#9. The great Pacific Railway is commenced ... Immigration will soon pour into these valleys. Ten millions of emigrants will settle in this golden land in twenty years ... This is the grandest enterprise under God!

George Francis Train

#10. The more feelings you give, the more they'll take from you.

Brittainy C. Cherry