Latin Quotes - Page 26

• The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

  Carlos Fuentes

  America, United States, Century

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• I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates.

  Elizabeth I

  Kings, Scotland, House

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• Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.

  Evo Morales

  Divided, Nations

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• I could take you for a walk on the beach and I could point out just about any creature and give you their Latin names.

  Paul Walker

  Beach, Names, Giving

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• Curitiba is not a paradise. We have all the problems that most Latin American cities have. We have slums. We have the same difficulties, but the big difference is the respect given by people due to the quality of the services which are provided.

  Jaime Lerner

  Cities, Differences, People

  "Maverick mayor: 'Eco-architecture not ego-architecture!'". Interview with Zara Bilgrami, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2008.

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• "Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Writing, People, Sound

  Wikimania conference, August 2006.

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• Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations - conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Simple, English Grammar, Historical

  Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

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• Recordar: To remember; from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart

  Eduardo Galeano

  Heart, Records, Remember

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• I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Education, Country, Knowledge

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• He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

  Philippa Gregory

  Speaks French, Half, Dozen

  Philippa Gregory (2011). “Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set: The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• The word 'question' is derived from the Latin quaerere 'to seek,' which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions are useful guides.

  Paul A. Kaufman

  Roots, Creative, Good Questions

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• Sometimes, when she's out here alone, she can feel the pulse of something bigger, as if all things animate were beating in unison, a glory and a connection that sweeps her out of herself, out of her consciousness, so that nothing has a name, not in Latin, not in English, not in any known language.

  T.C. Boyle

  Names, Pulse, Connections

  T.C. Boyle (2012). “When the Killing's Done”, p.101, A&C Black

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• I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent - but I had blonde hair. It was ignorance: they thought every Latin person looks like Salma Hayek.

  Sofia Vergara

  Ignorance, Hair, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in a big ol' Latin family, so that's all the music we used to play - salsa music. We'd always dance and have fun. You know how families get down, man! We just had fun with it.

  Ryan Guzman

  Fun, Men, Play

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Writing, Thinking, America

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• I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Selfishness, Latin Proverb

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• It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations. It is not in vain that the farmer remembers and repeats the few Latin words which he has heard.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Suggestions, Language, Remember

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.68, Graphic Arts Books

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• Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).

  Leo Tolstoy

  Wish, Firsts, Made

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• It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as the Eye, always tried to escape from violence even at the risk of being considered a coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us who were around twenty years old when Salvador Allende died.

  Roberto Bolano

  Real, Eye, Years

  "Last Evenings on Earth". Book by Roberto Bolaño, 2006.

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• You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really nasty guys, we did some things that we are not particularly proud of, from Latin America to Southeast Asia, but we did have a kind of overarching framework about what we were trying to do that did lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. That was our objective. We achieved it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Leadership, Jobs, Mistake

  "Hillary Clinton: 'Failure' to Help Syrian Rebels Led to the Rise of ISIS". Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, www.theatlantic.com. August 10, 2014.

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• The word humility (also human) is derived from the Latin humus, meaning the soil. Perhaps this is not simply because it entails stooping and returning to earthly origins, but also because, as we are rooted in this earth of everyday life, we find in it all the vitality and fertility unnoticed by people who merely tramp on across the surface, drawn by distant landscapes.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Humility, People, Everyday

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• I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.

  Sarah Fielding

  Marriage, Husband, Believe

  Arnold Edwin Needham, Sarah Fielding (1943). “The Life and Works of Sarah Fielding”

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• I am convinced that all this poverty in Mexico and in Latin America, like it's happening in China is the opportunity to grow. It's an opportunity for investment; it's an economic activity and to take out poverty is the best investment any person or a person can do in any place.

  Carlos Slim

  Opportunity, America, Mexico

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• I want to thank my fans for their support and love all these years, thank you Miami. Thank you Latin America. Thank you Mexico. Thank you world !

  Enrique Iglesias

  Love, Years, America

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• Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for proper gentlemen to read, much less proper ladies. I know in precise detail what Caligula did to, and with, his sisters, and I can quote it to you in Latin or in my own translation if you wish. I am interested in historical truth, and truth in history is often unpleasant and distasteful to those of fine sensibility. I frankly doubt that you will produce anything to shock me.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Historical, Greek, Gentleman

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