Gratia Quotes

#1. Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.
[Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]

Tacitus

#2. Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase.
[Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]

Ovid

#3. Art for art's sake.
[Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

Howard Dietz

#4. God Himself supplies the necessary condition to come to Jesus, that's why it is 'sola gratia,' by grace alone, that we are saved.

R.C. Sproul

#5. He printed business cards celebrating his shift. They read, 'Ars gratia pecuniae.' Translated, it meant, 'Art for money's sake.

Kliph Nesteroff

#6. I don't get much sauciness, I'm too old for saucy now, but back in the day I think there were a few marriage proposals. And I do use the fact women approach me as a chance to chat them up. They never seem to mind too much.

Roger Lloyd-Pack

#7. The approach that the music industry took to fight piracy was the wrong strategy.

MC Hammer

#8. He was one of those people who, quick to laugh, are slow to anger; so that their anger, when it comes, is all the more impressive, seeming to leap from some unsuspected crevice like a fire which will bring the whole house down.

James Baldwin

#9. Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

Walter Kaufmann

#10. I need to die for the killing of those people.

Aileen Wuornos

#11. Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#12. As soon as a man begins to make excuses, the time has come when he might be doing that from which he excuses himself.

George MacDonald

#13. I praise you for healing all my diseases - diseases in my body, heart, and mind. Though I wish you would completely heal me before you return, nonetheless, I have this sure hope: one day I will be perfectly whole. Praise the Lord, O my soul, for present, ongoing, and a secured complete healing!

Scotty Smith

#14. Every interpersonal situation has a solution in which everyone wins.

Del Close

#15. I had no regrets for those that had let me go. You see, I wanted the one that couldn't.

Alfa H

#16. I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

R.L. Stine

#17. It was the winter of war, in 1939. It felt completely pointless to try to create pictures ... I suddenly felt an urge to write down something that was to begin with 'Once upon a time.'

Tove Jansson

#18. There are things some people can never understand.there's no point to telling them.

Chetan Bhagat