Parvi Quotes

#1. An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home.
[Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. To keep faith with life is to experience that everything- everything that comes to us whatever it is- has its place in the puzzle of our existence.

Roger Housden

#3. Like many another materialist, that is, he lied cleverly on the basis of insufficient knowledge, because the knowledge supplied seemed to his own particular intelligence inadmissible.
("The Wendigo")

Algernon Blackwood

#4. In literature there is no such thing as a pure thought; in literature, thought is always the handmaid of emotion.

J. Middleton Murry

#5. Personality is lower than partiality.

Goldwin Smith

#6. The dancer's trembling heart must bring everything into harmony, from the tips of her shoes to the flutter of her eyelashes, from the ruffles of her dress to the incessant play of her fingers.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#7. I am nearly the worst role model for a healthy person. To me, a healthy person is someone in balance. Sometimes you eat hamburgers, sometimes salad; sometimes you move, sometimes you don't. I eat more healthily than unhealthily, but I do sometimes eat unhealthy food.

Magnus Scheving

#8. With patient course thy path of duty run;
God nothing does, nor suffers to be done,
What thou wouldst do thyself, couldst thou but see;
The end of all events as well as He.

Marshall Broomhall

#9. I think there's really no rhyme or reason as to what keeps a show on air. Surely it's a numbers game, but some of the best shows get canceled, and some shows where you don't totally understand why they're on the air stay on for 15 or 20 years.

Jordana Spiro

#10. In visual futurism, the line between total fantasy and futuristic is a thread of reality.

Syd Mead

#11. I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.

Peter Wright

#12. If someone chooses to live a certain way, and it doesn't infringe on anyone's freedom, it's their choice to make.

Frank Sonnenberg

#13. A real artist is the one who has learned to recognize and to render ...
the 'radiance' of all things as an epiphany or showing forth of the truth.

Joseph Campbell

#14. I have planted over 6,000 trees at home in Scotland, some of them oak. I'd like my children to be able to watch them grow.

Rory Stewart

#15. During my addled career as a trout fisherman I have gone on a lot of wild-goose chases, and I ruefully expect to go on a lot more before I hang up my waders

John D. Voelker

#16. Joy is not a thing, it is in us.

Charles Wagner