Obstat Quotes & Sayings

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.
[Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat
Res angusta domi.] — Juvenal

Parents cannot be in the same physical space as their children at all times. — Beeban Kidron

The very voices of the night, sounding like the moan of the tempest, may turn out to be the disguised yet tender voices of God, calling away from all earthly footsteps, to mount with greater singleness of eye and ardor of aim the alone ladder of safety and peace upward, onward, heavenward, homeward. — John Ross Macduff

The heart is capable of sacrifice. So is the vagina. The heart is able to forgive and repair. It can change it's shape to let us in. It can expand to let us out. So can the vagina. It can ache for us and stretch for us, die for us and bleed and bleed us into this difficult, wondrous world. So can the vagina. I was there in the room. I remeber. — Eve Ensler

Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys. — Stella Benson

Fashion ... has brought every thing into vogue, by turns. — Charles Caleb Colton

But the same spirits of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender. Man is more robust than woman, but he is not longer-lived; which exactly explains my view of the nature of their attachment. Nay, it would be too hard upon you, if it were otherwise. You have difficulties, and privations, and dangers enough to struggle with ... It would be too hard indeed (with a faltering voice) if woman's feelings were to be added to all this! — Jane Austen

When you see the sadness in life, be compassionate. When you see the darkness, become the light and be passionate. — Debasish Mridha

I lived with people who had varied opinions, some of whom did not accept my Nazi views. I encouraged this. If a man said something that was critical of me or my ideas, I wouldn't consider him an enemy. — Baldur Von Schirach

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. — Frank Lloyd Wright

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. — Henry David Thoreau

Photography's about the surface, what's happening at the top of the sea. Literature's about all the stuff below. — Max Pam

Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez