Virumque Quotes

#1. Arma virumque cano ... "
*Literally: "I sing of arms and man".
I sing the praises of a man's stuggles

Virgil

#2. Yet I still, he said, believe in love. Love restores almost everything, and where it can't restore, it takes away the pain.

Rachel Cusk

#3. It was the way the autumn day looked into the high windows as it waned; the way the red light, breaking at the close from under a low sombre sky, reached out in a long shaft and played over old wainscots, old tapestry, old gold, old colour.

Henry James

#4. The purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. How much am I doing about my anger, attachment, hatred, pride, and jealousy? These are the things we must check in our daily lives." - HIS HOLINESS, THE DALAI LAMA

Haemin Sunim

#5. We are all of us - well, with the exception of people who have just fallen in love and those lucky demented few who see life's glass as three quarters full - we are just getting by.

Juliann Garey

#6. We made safe places in the apartment where you could go and not exist.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#7. My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

Laura Linney

#8. George W. Bush was president through some of the darkest days of our history and yet his optimism never waned. He is optimistic by nature, but he also understood the importance of always communicating a sense that things will get better.

Mark McKinnon

#9. I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that.

Brenda Lee

#10. That all salespeople are different, that all accountants are different, that each individual, no matter what his chosen profession, is unique.

Marcus Buckingham

#11. Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants.

Katharine Anthony

#12. I pray. I pray that my sins have not caught up with me the way I'd always feared they would.

Khaled Hosseini

#13. youth is a marvelous garment

Iris Murdoch