Videntur Quotes & Sayings

But, you know, do what you like! Have a million books! I was only, like, asking. It's still a book if you're reading it on an iPad. Soup is soup whatever bowl it's in. — Fredrik Backman

When it came to the definition of genius, the ultimate measure could never really be the skull - the measure was always the writing, the music, the art itself. — Colin Dickey

I'm definitely the worker. My brother is the jokester. — Taryn Manning

He loved me, Mama. He just didn't know how things fall down around me like they do. I think he did the right thing. He gave himself another chance, that's all.....I was trying to say it's all right that Cecil left. It was...a relief in a way. I never was what he wanted to see, so it was better when he wasn't looking at me all the time. — Marsha Norman

Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.
[Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.] — Tacitus

I've got a funny old face. Someone described it once, and I think they were being kind, as character. But I know what they mean! I've never been that conventional. I suppose maybe it means that my face can look different in different lights, so I just try and sort of keep it simple when I'm going out, to still look like me. — Cate Blanchett

That's one of the benefits of being an orphan: instant sympathy. — Carrie Ryan

You don't have to be perfect, but you have to try hard. And I did all the time. — Elena Dementieva

The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over. — Connie Willis

Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, or stimulate new ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need for business any longer. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I think Dodd-Frank has contributed to a concentration of banking assets in the hands of a small number of banks. — Mitt Romney