Erga Quotes

#1. Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune.
[Lat., Res secundae valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.]

Quintus Curtius Rufus

#2. The world can be seen from so many different angles. Each of us is born seeing the world in a different way, and each moment we live shapes our eyes and hearts differently.

Greg Keyes

#3. The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.

Ajahn Chah

#4. I like actors who don't have to think too hard about what they have to do to achieve their performance.

Michel Gondry

#5. I think we all appreciate it now just how lucky we are to be in a band like Judas Priest.

Glenn Tipton

#6. So ask yourself, you swirling tornado of a human being, in a world of disoriented honeybees, do you want to look locked out the minute you sit down?

Naomi Shihab Nye

#7. Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.

Chris Wedge

#8. It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.

Frank Herbert

#9. The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.

Bodhidharma

#10. All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.

Stephen Vizinczey

#11. We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest.

John Adams

#12. On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females.

Warren Farrell

#13. [When asked by a student if he believes in any gods]
Oh, no. Absolutely not ... The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

James D. Watson