Vitiis Quotes

#1. The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath.
[Lat., Quin corpus onustum
Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque praegravat una
Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.]

Horace

#2. Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story.

Charles D'Ambrosio

#3. You must understand that by this time the only choice was among several varieties of defeat, but the town in question rejected compromise and would settle for nothing but victory. That was not reason talking; that was the voice of litost!

Milan Kundera

#4. Nor is there wanting in the press
Some spirit to stand simply forth,
Heroic in it nakedness,
Against the uttermost of earth.
The tale of earth's unhonored things
Sounds nobler there than 'neath the sun;
And the mind whirls and the heart sings,
And a shout greets the daring one.

Robert Frost

#5. I know Jesus Christ died for my sins, and that's all I really need to know.

Ann Coulter

#6. We live in a hostile world that constantly seeks to pull us away from God.

Billy Graham

#7. You are the deer shot through with arrows whose heart grows cold for want of being taken.

Kathleen Kent

#8. I pause, unsure what to type. It would be weird to say I've missed you too, even though I have, because that feels like I'm betraying Porter. I'm so confused. Maybe he doesn't even mean it that way. Maybe he never did. Lord knows I'm not good at reading people.

Jenn Bennett

#9. That's how librarians are. They just can't help it.

Carla Morris

#10. Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

Louise Penny

#11. Only three things can change our lives dreams, suffering and love

Paulo Coelho

#12. It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Arnold Bennett

#13. So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.

Bertrand Russell