Lucrum Quotes

#1. Est etiam, ubi profecto damnum praestet facere, quam lucrum - there are occasions when it is certainly better to lose than to gain

Plautus

#2. All the important things in life lie beyond reason ... and that's just the way things are.

Alister E. McGrath

#3. When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a person's sensibility. It's an almost impossible thing to teach anyone, which leads me to believe that it's intuitive.

Mark Leyner

#4. Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am
-Luna Lovegood

J.K. Rowling

#5. Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#6. Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.

Elie Wiesel

#7. I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.

Gordon Strachan

#8. The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob, before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and heart of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most.

Edward Abbey

#10. I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world.

Moby

#11. We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.

Asne Seierstad

#12. If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.

Boyd K. Packer

#13. A mission statement is not something you write overnight ... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

Stephen Covey

#14. In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationship where you understand the other person.

Elisabetta Canalis

#15. I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end of my literary career.

Bill Nighy

#16. I dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them.

Amy Lee