A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

Ovid
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  2. Bring something incomprehensible into the world! - Gilles Deleuze

  3. There has to be new words to explain new worlds. - Toba Beta

  4. God's grace is not defined as God being forgiving to us even though we sin. Grace is when God is a source of wholeness, which makes up for my failings. My failings hurt me and others and even the planet, and God's grace to me... - Nadia BolzWeber

  5. The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

More Quotes By Ovid
  1. I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

  2. Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

  3. Fas est ab hoste doceri. One should learn even from one's enemies.

  4. Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses

  5. As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed.

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