Latin Quotes - Page 5

• Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

  George Andrew Olah

  Reading, School, Later In Life

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• My government revoked my passport intentionally to leave me exiled. If they really wanted to capture me, they would've allowed me to travel to Latin America, because the CIA can operate with impunity down there. They did not want that; they chose to keep me in Russia.

  Edward Snowden

  Russia, Government, America

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Now the ordinary Protestant, Jew or Secularist has a stereotype about Catholicism. It consists of Spanish Catholicism, Latin-American Catholicism and, let us say, a Catholicism of O'Connor's "Great Hurrah." Now there are types of Catholicism like that but this doesn't - this doesn't do justice to the genuine relation that Catholicism has had to Democratic Society.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Justice, Ordinary, Stereotype

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.

  Horace

  Wicked, Laziness, Temptress

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• So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

  Lucretius

  Deeds Done, Evil, Political

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1937). “Lucretius, de rerum natura”

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• I went to school at a place that also shaped my life, Boston Latin School.

  Nat Hentoff

  School, Boston

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• It was a competitive examination [in Boston Latin School]. Poor kids, Brahmans, middle-class kids. The masters, as the teachers were called, didn't give a damn about - how we felt, what was - things like at home. I mean, this goes against the current grain. All they thought about was: `You're here. You made the exam. You can do the work. And if you can't, we'll throw you out.'

  Nat Hentoff

  Teacher, Home, School

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• One Sallow does not make Summer.

  Horace

  Summer, Doe

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• It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Wings, Roles, Actors

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• J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dog, Verbs, Tails

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.115, 谷月社

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• The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.

  Horace

  Men, Forget, Hated

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• Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit.

  Edward Sapir

  Religious, Long, Spirit

  Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.277, Walter de Gruyter

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• Imperialism has layed its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America. Wherever you strike it, you damage it, and you serve the World Revolution.

  Ghassan Kanafani

  Heart, America, Middle East

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• When the US government got word that I was planning to leave Russia to go to Latin America, they brought down the plane of the - the presidential plane, which had diplomatic protection, that had the Bolivian president on board. They closed the airspace in four different countries in Europe, I believe, which was extraordinary, unprecedented.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Believe, Europe

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• Make haste cautiously.

  Augustus

  Haste

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• Alcohol is certainly one of the most abused drugs since ever and ever, since Dionysus. They say have a glass of wine at dinner, which was done in the Latin countries. In Italy we always had a glass of wine at dinner. It is a good thing. But if you have dozens of glasses of wine at dinner it is not so good.

  Laura Huxley

  Country, Wine, Glasses

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared.

  Georgie Anne Geyer

  Men, Doe, World

  Georgie Anne Geyer (1970). “The New Latins: Fateful Change in South and Central America”

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• Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects that legacy - it comes from the Latin word calculus, meaning a pebble used for counting. To enjoy working with numbers you don't have to be Einstein (German for "one stone"), but it might help to have rocks in your head.

  Steven Strogatz

  Math, Rocks, Numbers

  Steven Strogatz (2012). “The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.

  Brooke Burke

  Men, Passionate, World

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• I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.

  Horace

  Appreciation, Bronze, Lasting

  Odes bk. 3, no. 30, l. 1

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• Maybe boutique media, maybe people who are reading papers and talking to academics and whatnot, maybe they understand, because they're high-information. But a lot of people are still unaware that I never intended to end up in Russia. They're not aware that journalists were live-tweeting pictures of my seat on the flight to Latin America I wasn't able to board because the US government revoked my passport.

  Edward Snowden

  Reading, Media, Talking

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Talk loud enough about human rights and it gives the impression of democracy at work, justice at work. There was a time when the United States waged war to topple democracies, because back then democracy was a threat to the Free Market. Countries were nationalising their resources, protecting their markets.... So then, real democracies were being toppled. They were toppled in Iran, they were toppled all across Latin America, Chile.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Real, War

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Unicorn. Old French, unicorne. Latin, unicornis. Literally, one-horned: unus, one and cornu,a horn. A fabulous animal resembling a horse with one horn.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Horse, Animal, Fabulous

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The last unicorn”, Del Rey

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• I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and am a product of a family that were jazz aficionados and also very interested in progressive politics. And so I had a lot of artists and musicians in my home. Lots of Latin music, folk, and jazz and blues, bluegrass-type of stuff. Painters and stuff like that.

  Jack Waters

  Home, Artist, Philadelphia

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.

  Haley Reinhart

  Dad, Rocks, Pockets

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