Propter Quotes

#1. In monasteries of old, the monk's dharma, his purpose in life, was said to be this: to support the choir. In Latin, propter chorum. Literally, his life was lived "in support of the choir." He was not a soloist. He was not a diva. He was part of a magnificent whole.

Stephen Cope

#2. I argued that she wasn't even alive when My Little Pony originally aired, but she retorted that she wasn't alive now, either, and there's just no good comeback to that.

Aprilynne Pike

#3. Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth ...

Marcel Proust

#4. God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.

Ezra Taft Benson

#5. Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.

George Takei

#6. Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation.

Hillary Clinton

#7. Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing.

Nathanael Emmons

#8. It is all in vain; the torture of the unfulfilled law cannot be overcome.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

George MacDonald

#10. And why are you sitting there? (Callie)
Because it's rather difficult to stand while sleeping. (Sin)
You are sleeping outside my door? Why? (Callie)
Because if I slept outside of Simon's door, the innkeeper might think I'm strange. (Sin)

Kinley MacGregor

#11. My first wife was a theater person.

Ahmet Ertegun

#12. Scorpions like holes. We had to put our arms in the holes to dig out the smelting residues. We always performed critter checks before an excavation, but one morning, I put an arm in and felt a sharp pierce. When I brought my hand out, it was red and already swelling.

Sarah Parcak

#13. In our time, in particular, many people are not only estranged from some of them but are denied the chance to encounter them.

Yuval Levin

#14. All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

Leonard Cohen

#15. Class starts in five. You
riding in the Charger?"
"Nah. I'm going to see if I can get Abby on the back of my bike again. It's the closest I can get to
the inside of her thighs.

Jamie McGuire