Top 16 Profanum Quotes
#1. I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence).
[Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
Favete linguis.]
Horace
#2. But when we crave power over life - endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality - then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#3. I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit.
Donald Trump
#4. There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.
E. Nesbit
#5. Just because you don't feel calm, doesn't mean you can't be calm.
Penny Reid
#6. I would say that for the younger musicians, technical proficiency is necessary and a given these days. But the study and the way you function in society, your beliefs and the way you live, that is where you will find a real musician, a real artist.
David Finckel
#7. I'm scared of being seen. I'm scared of doing anything. I'm scared of losing another person who loves me. I'd rather just drift.
Cecily Anne Paterson
#8. Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your front door forever.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#10. Being called fat is not like being called stupid or unfunny, which is the worst thing you could ever say to me.
Mindy Kaling
#11. Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invention of Wings' was the strangest one I've ever done. I created six large, separate outlines, one for each part of the book, and hung them around my study.
Sue Monk Kidd
#13. A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.
Jeffrey Archer
#14. Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.
R.J. Rushdoony
#15. Half of what I write is imaginative reality. The other half is realized impossibilities. Blended into one, these make a fantasy.
Nicole Sager
#16. Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.
Stewart Brand
