Proderit Olim Quotes

#1. Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)

Ovid

#2. Our politics are overrun with characters acting at the behest of shadows.

Charles M. Blow

#3. The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

Vinoba Bhave

#4. I am not an attractive man. These clothes are the only thing holding me together; when I'm nude, my body shoots off in all directions. I'm like a starfish.

Jeremy Hotz

#5. THIS IS THE HOUSE OF TARZAN, THE KILLER OF BEASTS AND MANY BLACK MEN. DO NOT HARM THE THINGS WHICH ARE TARZAN'S. TARZAN WATCHES. TARZAN OF THE APES.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#6. Good journalist. I rattled off things that would make students keenly aware of newsroom labor models, the ad industry and publishing

Anonymous

#7. I'm a lunatic wandering around for scraps.

Daniel Handler

#8. It's always great to see one of the actors I've worked with from 'Caddyshack' and 'TRON.' I run into them occasionally at events.

Cindy Morgan

#9. Practice the non-practice practice.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#10. We've lost control of this planet somewhere. There's an echo in that kind of tornado situation, where you're powerless facing those phenomena.

Francis Alys

#11. Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.

Dick Van Dyke

#12. More wine?" Tyrion asked him. "I should not object," Lord Janos said, holding out his cup. He was built like a keg, and had a similar capacity.

George R R Martin

#13. With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoievsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist.

Vladimir Nabokov

#15. When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.

Howard Dean