Praemia Quotes

#1. The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards?
[Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam
Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam
Praemia se tollas.]

Juvenal

#2. Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich

#3. My love is like the light and warmth of the sun. It never changes. It never disappears even when you change your positions and perceptions.

Debasish Mridha

#4. I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.

Mads Mikkelsen

#5. I wanted to clear up the slum of legs ... I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.

Eero Saarinen

#6. Also, chubby people can never truly pull off ethereal the same way skinny people can never be jolly.

Mindy Kaling

#7. We should have learned by now not to be surprised by kittypets.
Graystripe

Erin Hunter

#8. You know, if rabid koalas went around giving hugs. I gurgled a laugh at the ridiculous ways my mind kept me from going into shock or freezing up.

Meghan Ciana Doidge

#9. We must sit by these rivers, not under or in them, but above, not standing upright, but sitting down, so that we remain humble by sitting, and safe by remaining above.

Blaise Pascal

#10. What does it signify how we dress here at Cranford, where everybody knows us?" And if they go from home, their reason is equally cogent, "What does it signify how we dress here, where nobody knows us?

Elizabeth Gaskell

#11. The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.'

Alain Juppe

#12. People are led to reason thus: a woman who is a wife is one who has made a permanent sex bargain for her maintenance; the woman who is not married must therefore make a temporary bargain of the same kind.

Christabel Pankhurst

#13. Few men are true masters over their women. In truth, I would eye with suspicion any woman who acts as if that is the truth. Either she lies, or she is so dull-witted or weak-spirited that she will make you a tedious wife.

Hannah Howell

#14. We live in a world where many kinds of regression dignify themselves with the mantle of progress.

Michael Moorcock

#15. Do you hear that, Dillon? Inadvertent self-wedgie! Write that down! That's what you want your characters to say, not some anodyne bullshit about corporate greed.

Aleksandar Hemon