Oculum Quotes

#1. If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
[Lat., Quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid
Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum.]

Horace

#2. I'm so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I'm breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life. Eventually, they'll just go away, because you will make them sad. That's something I've proven quite adept at doing over the years.

Adam Duritz

#3. Jesus, Son of the Eternal God, have mercy on me.

Michael Servetus

#4. Apparently they died from overfeeding. Apparently I overfed them. Apparently fish are terrible glutons with absolutely no self-control who just don't know when they've had enough and will stuff themselves to death with those innocuous little beige flakes imaginatively labeled 'fish food.

Steve Toltz

#5. Here, you go to the supermarket and you have wipes to clean your hands before shopping. No, we don't have that in France, but we recycle.

Berenice Bejo

#6. We think we've seen it all before, we think we know it all by heart.

Luanne Rice

#7. I'm a golfer - not an athlete.

Lee Westwood

#8. May we be faithful followers of Christ, examples of righteousness, thus becoming lights in the world.

Thomas S. Monson

#9. I hate being bored when I read a story. Even a well-trod theme can be made fresh by a different perspective or fresh writing.

Ellen Datlow

#10. Postpone to the great object of Liberty every smaller motive and passion.

Thomas Jefferson

#11. The wise realize that some things are within their control, and most things are not. They learn early on to distinguish between what they can and can't regulate.

Epictetus

#12. Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.

Frederick Locker-Lampson