Latin Quotes - Page 34

• When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.

  Christopher Morley

  Education, America, Assassins

  "Point of View" l. 1 (1923)

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• How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Book, Soul, Vedas

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• I have indeed lived and worked to my taste either in art or science. What more could a man desire? Knowledge has always been my goal. There is much that I shall leave behind undone...but something at least I was privileged to leave for the world to use, if it so intends...As the Latin poet said I will leave the table of the living like a guest who has eaten his fill. Yes, if I had another life to spend, I certainly would not waste it. But that cannot be, so why complain?

  Leon Croizat

  Art, Science, Men

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• When I need to be precise about a plant, I use its Latin name, even if my nongardening friends sometimes look at me a little funny for using big words in a dead language - or in the kind of horticultural Esperanto that botanical names make up.

  Allen Lacy

  Names, Esperanto, Needs

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• Many people do not know that Jesus did not speak Latin or English or Hebrew; he spoke Aramaic. But nobody knows that language. So we're talking about the Bible itself being a translation of a translation of a translation. And, in reality, it has affected people's lives in history.

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Jesus, Reality, Talking

  Source: www.alternet.org

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• I want to see Colombian youth become the best-educated in Latin America by 2025.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  America, Want, Youth

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• It's challenging being a woman. There are other kinds of obstacles that come your way, but there are many times that being Latin has actually helped me, being a Cuban-American has helped me.

  Eva Mendes

  Challenges, Way, Obstacles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

  George Orwell

  Fall, Political Language, Snow

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In high school, I had fun in my academic clubs, watching movies with my girlfriends, learning Latin, having long, protracted, unrequited crushes on older guys who didn’t know me, and yes, hanging out with my family. I liked hanging out with my family! Later, when you’re grown up, you realize you never get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that’s it.

  Mindy Kaling

  Crush, Girlfriend, Fun

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.33, Crown/Archetype

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• I was lucky enough to see the original cast of 'In the Heights.' This one blew my mind. The infusion of Latin, hip hop and rap with musical theatre, great storytelling and talent was a powerful combination to me during a time when I'd not been moved by much!

  Josh Young

  Powerful, Rap, Hip Hop

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• Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and wild. He's redefined Latin jazz!

  Michael Brecker

  Unique, Jazz, Genre

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• I want people to read good work. If I see someone reading a book by Lorrie Moore or Jennifer Egan, I'm psyched. If I see them reading X Latin American Writer Who Sucks, I'm not psyched. But in terms of news, I do think that's important.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• In Latin you say: "Repetita iuvant - to repeat is beneficial". The fewer changes made in a country, the more often I repeat my messages. And it works.

  Mario Draghi

  Country, Messages, Made

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector." "I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago," I said at once. "Elvii?" Marcone inquired. "The plural could be Elvises, I guess," I said. "But if I say that too often, I start muttering to myself and calling things 'my precious,' so I usually go with the Latin plural.

  Jim Butcher

  Art, Believe, Cities

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.1694, Penguin

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• A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well.

  George Herbert

  Morning, Children, Wine

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.357

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• No proper princess would come out looking for dragons," Woraug objected. "Well I'm not a proper princess then!" Cimorene snapped. "I make cherries jubillee and I volunteer for dragons, and I conjugate Latin verbs-- or at least I would if anyone would let me. So there!

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Princess, Dragons, Volunteer

  Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books.

  Joss Whedon

  Book, Speak, Fronts

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Superstar)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor - the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart." Over time, this definition has changed, and today, we typically associate courage with heroic and brave deeds. But in my opinion, this definition fails to recognize the inner strength and level of commitment required for us to actually speak honestly and openly about who we are and about our experiences -- good and bad. Speaking from our hearts is what I think of as "ordinary courage.

  Brené Brown

  Commitment, Heart, Thinking

  "I thought it was just me". Book by Brené Brown, February 2007.

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• I do not want [photography] explained to me in terms of... formulas, learned, but so hopelessly unsatisfying. I do not want my butterfly stuck on a pin and put in a glass case. I want to see the sunlight on its wings as it flits from flower to flower and I don't care a rap what its Latin name may be.

  Jacob August Riis

  Photography, Flower, Butterfly

  Jacob August Riis (1901). “The Making of an American”

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• Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, People, Welfare

  "De Legibus (On the Laws)" book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book III, section 3),

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• The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from the latin mundus, meaning 'the world'. And the world is anything but dull: The world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, Mean, Opposites

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• Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.

  Margaret Sanger

  Weed, Flower, Mean

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• I don't like the Samba; it's nonsense. With a lot of these Latin dances I can't really understand what they're all about. I like the Rumba and the Paso Doble but the others I could take or leave.

  Anton du Beke

  Nonsense, Rumba, Samba

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

  Carl Sagan

  Carl Sagan (2006). “The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God”, p.218, Penguin

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• Of course I'm a black writer... I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call "literature" is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hasidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche.

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, Black, Melting

  Newsweek Interview, March 30, 1981.

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