Sunday, June 5, 2011

Favorite Quotations

  • Sic transit gloria mundi (Worldly things are fleeting.) - Said to be whispered to Caesar when he entered Rome after a successful military campaign. And also to a newly-installed Pope during his first appearance as Pope from a balcony over St. Peter's Square.
  • O quam cito transit gloria mundi (How quickly the glory of the world passes away) - Thomas à Kempis "Imitation of Christ"
  • Heard from a Hell's Kitchen contestant (Sous Chef Jillian) : "I don't know anything about sushi. I've never worked in a CHINESE restaurant before." WTF!
  • "Can't you be stupid somewhere else?" - Sandy Cheeks to Patrick Star ("Spongebob Squarepants")
  • "Act as if you can do everything and pray as if God can do everything."
  • "It seems we don't have any control whatsoever over our hearts." - Grey's Anatomy.
  • "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Chinese fortune cookie
  • "Every wise man started out by asking many questions." - Chinese fortune cookie
  • "I want someone who will never leave me no matter how hard it is to be with me."
  • "Success is the sweetest revenge of all."
  • "You have to lose before you can win."
  • "It's not what you know but it's what you understand."
  •  "If you've been loved before, you know you will be loved again"  - Homer Simpson to Moe, "The Simpsons"
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