Videre Quotes

#1. Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.

Evan Esar

#2. The question, then, for Western companies, as much as for Western governments, is to decide whose side they are on: the Chinese officials who like to define their culture in a paternalistic, authoritarian way, or the large number of Chinese who have their own ideas about freedom.

Ian Buruma

#3. Ugh, I think I just called Tristan 'delicious.' Here's hoping I didn't actually say that out loud. -Layla

M.A. George

#4. That night, at God knows what hour, Bill phoned me up and shouted, 'Ozzy, I think my
house is haunted!'
'Sell tickets then,' I told him, and put the phone down.

Ozzy Osbourne

#5. My Aincrad style of swordsmanship was brought here from the floating castle. From a game of death, where every battle risked the ultimate price.

Reki Kawahara

#6. Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

Keith Jarrett

#7. Refuse anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next with pre-judgement

Robin Hobb