"Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]"

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Horace

#Poetry Quotes #Substance Quotes #Trifles Quotes

“I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can.”

Source : "Priest Fights Gangs With 'Boundless Compassion'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 20, 2010.
“I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.”
“What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.”

Source : FaceBook post by Adrian Grenier from Jan 06, 2013
“I think we all have a lot of different personas inside of ourselves. What happens in life is that most people get caught up in presenting one persona that they feel safest in.”
“We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
“Christians are supposed to love each other. Communists are supposed to share bonds with all proletarians and other communists. Every ideological group proclaims universality, and all of them bicker internally, never displaying unity except in the face of a common enemy. Humanism today is the common enemy of Christians.”
“You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.”
“Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation. (161)”

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