Valent Quotes

#1. Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune.
[Lat., Res secundae valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.]

Quintus Curtius Rufus

#2. My mom told me I never had enough Tonka toys when I was growing up.

Howard Graham Buffett

#3. And yet, a fissure, a split world, whose significance was yet obscure, had revealed itself to me. in the dark split were seeds of dim, unknown knowledge, without labels, a neuronal web of pre-thinking.

Paul Valent

#4. Share your strengths, not your weaknesses.

Yogi Bhajan

#5. When the Vikings moved into a place they just kind of killed everybody who was there before them.

Jon Gnarr

#6. Father was planning a debate. Silyen was planning a resurrection. And Gavar was planning a wedding. There was so much wrong with that, Gavar didn't know where to start.

Vic James

#7. The movies are celluloid hemorrhoids. No, worse: They're celluloid Bon Jovi.

Kyle Smith

#8. Modern money is almost altogether credit money.

John Buchanan Robinson

#9. How do people do this? How do people work up the courage to be themselves even if it means facing rejection from people who love them? Why don't people get medals for this?

Sara Farizan

#10. Death descends upon us to take away a life or change its form: let us judge it by what it does and not by what we do before it comes and after it is gone.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#11. I am a longtime fan of 'Freaks and Geeks'.

Hayley McFarland

#12. That light is bright enough to light up a little speck of the night sky so a man can see it a ways away. That's what God expects us to do. We're to be lights in the dark, cold days that are this world. Like fireflies in December.

Jennifer Erin Valent

#13. It was a fire of conscience, and meanings that made up packages of hell which seared into the mind. And what could we do? Supply a variety of survival strategies that made sense of the cacophony of survival?

Paul Valent

#14. If you can't say something nice about a person, go ahead

George Carlin

#15. What if we still ride on, we two
With life for ever old yet new,
Changed not in kind but in degree,
The instant made eternity

Robert Browning