Opere Quotes

#1. Melanchthon concludes that "no sane person can approve this Pharisaical and pagan opinion about ex opere operato." (Ap.XXIV.13)

Jordan B Cooper

#2. I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer.
[Lat., Et idem
Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.]

Horace

#3. We all end up dead, it's just a question of how and why.

William Wallace

#4. Some say love cannot be bought, but mine is available at this time for anyone with a good heart and the ability to use a photocopier.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#5. Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.

Aristotle.

#6. I saw Tina Turner do 'Proud Mary' on TV, and it was so electrifying and such a unique experience. I remember crying out of excitement, and I knew that I wanted to be a performer and make people feel excited and moved, and that's why I gravitated towards it.

Bonnie McKee

#7. The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.

Antony Sher

#8. In that moment, I understood implicitly what my mom had meant. That was the moment I felt my heart smile for the first time.

Nicola Haken

#9. I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship

Giovanna Fletcher