Quid Quotes
21 quotes by 21 authors
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As a lobbyist, I thought it only natural and right that my clients should reward those members who saved them such substantial sums with generous…
— Jack Abramoff
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You are where you are today because you stand on somebody's shoulders. And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself. If you…
— Vernon Jordan
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The mode of reconciling the promise of ever-increasing reward for the cadres and the demands of the working classes for a quid pro quo for…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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There's that 15 quid we put on One Direction to win down the drain.
— Alex Turner
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If the angle you're going at is there's some kind of quid pro quo - there isn't. Business is business, and people are allowed to…
— Mike Miller
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Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade
— Propertius
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Life is about making choices: you can either spend three quid on a glossy magazine or you can spend it clearing three square metres of…
— Twiggy
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Only unconditional grace can transform a hardened heart into a grateful heart. Only a free gift can demolish any notion of quid pro quo. Only…
— Mark Galli
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When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my…
— Luke Evans
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The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the…
— Walt Whitman
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I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me.
— Terry Pratchett
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Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.
— Nick Rahall
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It is a hard thing when one has shot sixty-five lions or more, as I have in the course of my life, that the sixty-sixth…
— H. Rider Haggard
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Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur"(nothing moves without having been moved).
— Aristotle
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I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women's clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who…
— Jules Verne
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Adam was in the dream, too; he traced the tangled pattern of ink with his finger. He said, "Scio quid hoc est." As he traced…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it…
— Saint Augustine
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When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my job and flew to Sydney,…
— Olly Murs
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Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.
— Tom Wilkinson
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INFLUENCE, n. In politics, a visionary _quo_ given in exchange for a substantial _quid_.
— Ambrose Bierce
Who Wrote These Quid Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 21 Quid Quotes as follows: