Latin Quotes - Page 18

• If you see what passes as the news on the networks in the United States, there's virtually no coverage of the rest of the world, not even of neighboring countries like Mexico or neighboring continents like Latin America.

  Tariq Ali

  Country, America, United States

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• We're looking at complexity. We're looking at blond kids in Beverley Hills who can speak Spanish because they have been raised by Guatemalan nannies. We're looking at Evangelicals coming up from Latin America to convert the U.S. at the same time that L.A. movie stars are taking up Indian pantheism.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Stars, Kids, America

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman Poetry." We must remember how truly Greek he was in his point of view. He set the example for later Latin poetry by writing the first epic of Rome in Greek hexameter verses instead of in the old Saturnian verse. He made popular the doctrines of Euhemerus, and he was in general a champion of free thought and rationalism.

  Quintus Ennius

  Father, Writing, Epic

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• Latin beauty means being proud of yourself and your culture; being sophisticated and beautiful; and embracing your complexion - whether you have light or dark skin - because it's gorgeous. We're such a beautiful rainbow of women.

  Chrissie Fit

  Beautiful, Mean, Dark

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• I knew about some experience on the operational part of the CIA with Latin American services and so forth having to do with torture. But this was the first time that the CIA was openly advocating for permission to be able to torture. And that seemed to me so abhorrent that I wanted to disassociate myself from the CIA for the first time since 1963, because I didn't want to be associated in any way, however remotely, with an agency engaged in torture.

  Ray McGovern

  Agency, Firsts, Abhorrent

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.

  Quintus Ennius

  Father, Greek, Firsts

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• How shall we define occultism? The word is derived from the Latin occultus, hidden; so that it is the study of the hidden laws of nature. Since all the great laws of nature are in fact working in the invisible world far more than in the visible, occultism involves the acceptance of a much wider view of nature than that which is ordinarily taken. The occultist, then, is a man who studies all the laws of nature that he can reach or of which he can hear, and as a result of his study he identifies himself with these laws and devotes his life to the service of evolution.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Taken, Acceptance, Men

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• In an overly materialistic world, prosperity is unfortunately and invariably associated with hoards of money and countless possessions. Yet to the truly prosperous people of this world, prosperity is prosperity in its purest and original sense. Prosperity comes from the Latin word "spes", which means "hope and vigor." To the truly prosperous person, being prosperous means being positive and happy in the moment.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Mean, People, Being Positive

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• I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Noses, Speak, Ends

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (2015). “Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)”, p.8433, Delphi Classics

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• At first critics classified authors as Ancients, that is to say, Greek and Latin authors, and Moderns, that is to say, every post-Classical Author. Then they classified them by eras, the Augustans, the Victorians, etc., and now they classify them by decades, the writers of the '30's, '40's, etc. Very soon, it seems, they will be labeling authors, like automobiles, by the year.

  W. H. Auden

  Years, Greek, Eras

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("Reading"), (p. 12), 1962.

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• You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Children, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.75, Harvard University Press

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• The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke with papal fluency and in which he did not stammer. Sooner or later they all resigned in despair, fearing he might be possessed: he might be spouting demonic instructions in Aramaic at them, for all they knew.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Teacher, Despair, Might

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.96, Penguin

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• A lot of attention has been paid in Latin America to the new generation of nonfiction writers, authors like Julio Villanueva Chang, Diego Osorno, Cristóbal Peña, Gabriela Wiener, Leila Guerriero, Cristian Alarcón, among others. These are writers doing important, groundbreaking work. So the talent is there, as is the habit of radio listenership, and what we propose to do is unite the two. We want to have these immensely gifted journalists - men and women who've already revitalized the long-form narrative - we want them to tell their stories in sound.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Men, Two, America

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are times when the gospel just seems to be powerfully at work in a nation, and thousands upon thousands are converted. If you think about what has happened in Latin America, Africa and East Asia all in the last hundred years, it is breathtaking. We have seen an expansion of the gospel as we have never seen before in the history of the church.

  Mark Dever

  Thinking, Years, America

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• It was shameful that, after Haiti, Colombia was the second most unequal country in Latin America. But we've achieved some things; the inequality is coming down, and coming down fast. The growing economy has provided us with the funds to finance a very progressive social policy that has reduced extreme poverty. We have the lowest inflation rate of all Latin-America countries and the highest growth rate.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Country, America, Growth

  "'Waging War Is More Popular than Negotiating'". Interview with Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. May 21, 2014.

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• The Colombian economy is very strong. We have one of the highest rates of growth in Latin America.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Strong, America, Growth

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• [In the Flash my character] is not even CSI, it's forensic, talking about the stratum corneum...Yeah, I was referring to my Latin book often to make sure I pronounce things correct.

  Tom Felton

  Book, Character, Talking

  "The Flash: 9 questions with Tom Felton". Interview with Ed Gross, www.empireonline.com. October 3, 2016.

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• I like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Thinking, Roots, Able

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which spreads dengue fever and yellow fever, has traditionally been unable to survive at altitudes higher than 1,000 meters because of colder temperatures there. But with recent warming trends, those mosquitoes have now been reported at 1,240 meters in Costa Rica and at 2,200 meters in Columbia. Malaria-bearing mosquitoes, too, have moved to higher elevations in central Africa, Asia, and parts of Latin America, triggering new outbreaks of the disease.

  Ross Gelbspan

  Yellow, America, Disease

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• The largest source of greenhouse gases in the coming decades will not be the US, Western Europe and Japan, but the developing economies of East Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. The coming eruption of carbon emissions from the poor world will dwarf any reductions in the North.

  Ross Gelbspan

  Future, Carbon Emissions, America

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• Brazil is one of the biggest Latin American countries, the biggest, no doubt, and, more importantly, it is a country with immense development potential.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Doubt, Brazil

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• I'm hoping my play opens up conversations, I hope it makes people question textbooks, I hope it makes #OscarsSoWhite and #HollywoodSoWhite question things. I hope my play sparks conversation between Latin kids and Latin parents and people start doing their own due diligence as well, I think it's everyone's responsibility.

  John Leguizamo

  Kids, Responsibility, Thinking

  "John Leguizamo on ‘The Infiltrator’, ‘John Wick 2′, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 15, 2016.

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• The difficulty of being a Latin kid, a Latin man in this country [U.S].

  John Leguizamo

  Country, Kids, Men

  Source: collider.com

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• I read that 36% of Latin kids drop out of high school, and we're the most bullied minority in schools right now. And my son had troubles in elementary school. So that made me really question being Latin in the United States.

  John Leguizamo

  School, Kids, Son

  "John Leguizamo on ‘The Infiltrator’, ‘John Wick 2′, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 15, 2016.

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• Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin.

  Bruce Sterling

  Dark, Europe, Age

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