Obtinent Quotes

#1. The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body.
[Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. Success is getting to a point where you'd be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over.

Tony Hsieh

#3. He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.

Jack London

#4. I'd want it to be really special to both of us, but I'm a huge fan of 'At Last' as a wedding song. But what's also really cool is songs that no one else would have at their wedding, like an obscure Radiohead song.

Mary Lambert

#5. ...but I believed in the existence of other and more vivid kinds of goodness, and what I believed in I wished to behold.

Charlotte Bronte

#6. Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains.

Patrick Ness

#7. I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.

Lisa Kleypas

#8. The evolutionary impulse is towards disidentification from thinking and the arising of awareness or presence, but the gravitational pull of the old consciousness, or rather unconsciousness, is still quite heavy. It's been around for thousands of years.

Eckhart Tolle

#9. In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.

David Mamet

#10. A lot of beefs in the music industry are caused from miscommunication and just not really understanding what's going on, having people in your ear saying this is what somebody did, or this is what somebody did to you.

Ludacris