"Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]"

-- Horace

#Men Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Poet Quotes

“We've got something special going here. We want to keep it going. You don't have many opportunities like this, and the window of opportunity for us is now.”
“Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.”
“I'm not out here looking for no garbage cans to curl up in. I'm looking for the same good dreams everybody else is hoping for, but I don't see where they are. Or maybe I see where they are, but I don't see how to get there.”
“We all know how to be a child.”
“We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.”
“If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.”

Source : "Nazi era French Resistance leader dies" by Tim Lister, www.cnn.com. April 11, 2012.
“The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.”
“Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers.”

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