Latin Quotes - Page 8

• Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models; and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Poet, Satire, Models

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• Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper."

  Greg Ray

  Mean, Term Paper, Paraphrase

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• I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It grew without a name until 1975, when I coined a new word to denote it, fractal geometry, from the Latin word for irregular and broken up, fractus. Today you might say that, until fractal geometry became organized, my life had followed a fractal orbit.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Order, Names, Broken

  "Encyclopedia of World Biography" edited by Thomson Gale, 1997.

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• Believe! An old Latin proverb reads: "Believe that you have it and you have it."

  Wilferd Peterson

  Confidence, Believe, Latin Proverb

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• At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Father, School, Eight

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• Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh

  Chita Rivera

  Laughing, Enough, Made

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• In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

  Joseph Sobran

  Wisdom, Teaching, School

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• Dancing is part of me now! The Latin dances are where my passions are.

  Jake Pavelka

  Passion, Dancing, My Passion

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• Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.

  Anna Lindh

  Country, Russia, America

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• Though he had very little Latin beyond "Cave canem," he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding).

  Dodie Smith

  Dog, Training, Caves

  Dodie Smith (1989). “101 Dalmatians”, p.21, Penguin

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• The word enchant comes from the Latin 'incantare', meaning to sing or chant magical words or sounds.

  Jonathan Goldman

  Wise, Sound

  Jonathan Goldman (2002). “Healing Sounds: The Power of Harmonics”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

  Ovid

  Laughter, Laughing, Fool

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• A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Real, Fall

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison (2001). “Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.

  Winston Churchill

  Clever, Learning, Boys

  My Early Life ch. 2 (1930)

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• I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid.

  Mario Vazquez

  Kids, Hip Hop, Sound

  "'Idol' dropout Mario Vazquez says 'everything is falling into place'" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. August 23, 2005.

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• People don’t realize that when you’re Latin, you’re so diverse. I am black. I am Latin. I am Spanish. You know? It’s a little bit of everything, and that’s beautiful. So, everybody, claim me. I’m fine with that!

  Joan Smalls

  Beautiful, People, Black

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• I bring a lot of passion to my life and my politics - I don't mind saying there is a very strong Latin component to it.

  Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

  Strong, Passion, Mind

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• I decided to go to Latin America because many of my students in Washington emigrated from this region and inspired me to learn more about their home countries.

  Jenna Bush

  Country, Home, America

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• Various Eastern fathers referred to the practice of married priests in their churches, offering each one of us elements for a further careful evaluation of the choice of the Latin church to connect celibacy to ordained priesthood.

  Angelo Scola

  Father, Offering, Practice

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• The Latin American has no tribe to fall back on, as the African does, no reliable judiciary to defend his rights as the European does, no social ideal or sacred constitution as the North American does, no pervasive mythology to soften life as it does in Asia, and no even an ideology to subscribe to, as does the Russian or Chinese. Without wealth, what is there left to him but his manhood, to be flaunted and defended at every occasion?

  Ted Simon

  Fall, Rights, Chinese

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• In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Book, Years, Profound

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• "True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction, and the vast interval between the two, which is not belief, but the suspension of judgment." Such, perhaps, was true science in Dr. Fenwick's days. But the true science of our modern times proceeds otherwise; it either denies point-blank, without any preliminary investigation, or sits in the interim, between denial and conviction, and, dictionary in hand, invents new Graeco-Latin appellations for non-existing kinds of hysteria!

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Hands, Two, Hysteria

  "Isis Unveiled". Book by Helena Blavatsky. Volume I, Chapter VII, 1877.

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• Oh my, I've just discovered what science shows us about our humble but spectacular place in the universe, and I have to say: it is thrilling and mind-boggling beyond all imaginings! It makes the Bible so puny and uninspired, and certainly less poetic, by comparison. I'm terribly sorry. I sincerely misunderstood so much. I almost wish there were a God so I could be punished for all the suffering I have obliviously caused in the world. But since there will be no cosmic punishment for me, I will spend what time I have left working in a family planning clinic in Latin America. Good day.

  Julia Sweeney

  Sorry, Humble, Good Day

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• Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of slavery, the first to force Emperor Napoleon to retreat, and the only to aid Simón Bolívar in his struggle to liberate the indigenous people and slaves of Latin America from their colonial oppressors.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Struggle, America

  Paul Farmer (2012). “Haiti After the Earthquake”, p.11, PublicAffairs

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• What happens is all these things we're seeing – campylobacter, E coli, mad cow, listeria, salmonella, that weren't even in the lexicon 30 years ago – that is the industrial paradigm exceeding its efficiency. So these Latin squiggly words that we're learning to say – bovine spongiform encephalopathy – are nature's language screaming to us: ENOUGH! And the question then is: what will it take for us to listen? And my contention is that Wall Street is still wearing conquistador mentality and uniforms, and nobody is listening to the pleadings of nature saying: 'Enough.'

  Joel Salatin

  Wall, Years, Mad

  "Interview: Joel Salatin" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2010.

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