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Quid quo pro - you cant get something from nothing . -- Carlous Ruiz Zafon
Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur"(nothing moves without having been moved). -- Aristotle
Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?] -- Horace
Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. [Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis Cautum est in horas.] -- Horace
I want to be the founder of a #startup app called Quid Pro Squid. No idea what it will do, but if I can get enough users, VC money will flow. -- Jarod Kintz
What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born. [Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu? Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.] -- Horace
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro Appone.] -- Horace
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?] -- Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger
Quid confert animae pugna Hectoris, vel disputatio Platonis, aut carmina Maronis, vel neniae Nasonis? Of what benefit to the soul are the struggles of Hector, the disputations of Plato, the songs of Virgil, or the dirges of Ovid? -- Honorius Augustodunensis
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 is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled. -- Saint Augustine
Acting for me is not that quid pro quo. -- Tom Wilkinson
I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me. -- Terry Pratchett
Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits. -- Nick Rahall
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 own singing and acting lessons. -- Luke Evans
Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. -- Wendy Davis
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 contributions. This quid pro quo became one of hallmarks of our lobbying efforts. -- Jack Abramoff
I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time. -- Gary Numan
In 1981, I borrowed 2,000 pounds - a lot of money back then - paid 50 quid for a seat, packed my own sandwich, and hopped on a plane to America. It was a mighty leap, but one that paid off. A week later, I got a job called 'Remington Steele.' -- Pierce Brosnan
I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of Bowling Green Street, Leith, went bust. If they hadn't folded, I'd probably still be scaffolding and loving it. -- Jamie Sives
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, then went to Melbourne and up the East Coast, which was an incredible experience. I remember running out of money and getting my mum to send me a few hundred quid, which helped me get by. -- Olly Murs
The Irish Six Million Dollar man only cost three quid. -- Frank Carson
Damnosa quid non imminuit dies? What does not destructive time destroy? -- Horace
There's that 15 quid we put on One Direction to win down the drain. -- Alex Turner
Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade -- Propertius
State Department official accused of offering 'quid pro quo' in [Hillary] Clinton email scandal. -- Donald Trump
Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.] -- Horace
Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris, Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.] -- Plautus
Both the State Department and the FBI deny any 'quid pro quo' between Hillary Clinton's State Department and the FBI... -- Thomas Roberts
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 manuscript. -- Walt Whitman
Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.) -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you're cutting deals with one company or another, eventually, there's going to be a quid pro quo. There's going to be a bribe. There's going to be something. -- David Brooks
Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest. [Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago? Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.] -- Ovid
To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
This is nothing. The last couple of batches of [Hillary Clinton's] emails have revealed exactly nothing. Now, who is pushing this notion that there was a quid pro quo in the State Department? -- Thomas Roberts

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