Horace Quotes

Being a leading man... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen.

You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

'Friends' started because Rachel left her husband at the altar. This likability factor is just so stupid to me. It's the same thing as 'wish-fulfillment,' which is a big word you hear in a lot of Hollywood rooms. It basically means that people want to see other people living a life they can't lead, and I don't buy that. I think that's not true.

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.

You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

I shall continue to be an impossible person so long as those who are now possible remain possible.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.

The mind is smaller than the eye.

I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.

The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.

No man may be completely invulnerable.

Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.

Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.

So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.

I find nothing wrong with striving for the impossible. But I find alot wrong with giving up

Only human, after all.

The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.

It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as we look back upon them in the far-distant past.

The powerful have invoked God at their side in this war, so that we will accept their power and our weakness as something that has been established by divine plan. But there is no god behind this war other than the god of money, nor any right other than the desire for death and destruction... Today there is a “NO” which shall weaken the powerful and strengthen the weak: the “NO” to war.

Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be.

And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.

Man, like the bridge, was designed to carry the load of the moment, not the combined weight of a year at once.

I would say that God custom designed my weaknesses. I am not making God responsible for my sins.