Amy Everett > Amy Everett's Quotes

“The creatures I have sent to their God are not men. They abdicated the right to the name by committing acts of inhuman savagery so that they cannot even count themselves among God's beasts. For even the beasts have better reason for what they do- and so have I. If those be men, I rank myself gladly with the animals. There are places in this world where the force of law holds sway; it is a great pity that Larissa is not one of them.”
― Rebecca Ashe

“Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace

“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
― Seneca

“VI VERI VENIVERSUM VIVUS VICI.
By the Power of Truth, I, while living, have Conquered the Universe.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta #2

“Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur."

If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.”
― Horace

“In love there are two evils: war and peace.”
― Horace

“Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start”
― Horace

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid

“Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.”
― Ovid

“When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.”
― Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses