Latin Quotes - Page 11

• Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

  J. L. Austin

  Austin, Done, Models

  "A Plea for Excuses". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1956.

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• When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.

  Alvaro Uribe

  War, Dictator, Reviews

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• I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.

  George Eliot

  People, Awkward, Looks

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.51

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• The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Years, America, Community

  "Eduardo Galeano, leading voice of Latin American left, dies aged 74" by Ashifa Kassam, Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2015.

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• There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?

  Josh Billings

  Significant, Wit, Caution

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• The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.

  E. V. Lucas

  Education, Greek, Doubt

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• Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.

  Robert Fitzgerald

  Greek, Different, Matter

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• In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  America, No Money, Latin America

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• The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

  Lytton Strachey

  Simplicity, Unity, Genius

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.22, Delphi Classics

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• Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses that are enlightened in their home bases see Africa, Latin America, and parts of Asia as places to exploit natural resources or use cheap labor.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Country, Art, Jobs

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• I wanted to take part in the liberation of even a small piece of enslaved Latin America.

  Che Guevara

  America, Pieces, Liberation

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

  Jake Pavelka

  Passion, Dancing, My Passion

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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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• Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the most of it.

  Charlton Laird

  Made, Grammar, Scholar

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• Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague Latin terms as intercourse and cohabitation.

  Charlton Laird

  Cohabitation, Jazz, Action

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• 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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• I was struggling to find a way to make evening clothes more deconstructed. I like to think that I translated the Latin concept in a more modern way. I don't think that I was that literal.

  Vera Wang

  Struggle, Thinking, Clothes

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• As minorities, it is always our dream to merge our cultures and showcase to the world the talent that comes from both Latin music and Hip-Hop, .. I hope that together,we can create a new cultural movement that unites these audiences.

  Emilio Estefan

  Dream, Together We Can, Hip Hop

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• I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Sports, Football, Believe

  Theodore Roosevelt (1995). “A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children”, Random House Incorporated

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• I am interested in garnering the white vote, and the black vote, and the Latin vote, and the Asian vote, and the business vote, and the labor vote.

  Harold Washington

  White, Black, Asian

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• I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.

  John Leguizamo

  Artist, Doors, Opening Up

  The New York Times, July 14, 1991.

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• Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.

  Edward Abbey

  Government, America, Long

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.57, RosettaBooks

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• I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

  Stephen Leacock

  Professors, Ought

  Here Are My Lectures ch. 14 (1938)

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• The European powers had been anxious to see the United States become embroiled in a civil war and eventually break into two smaller and weaker nations. That would pave the way for their further colonization of Latin American without fear of the Americans being able to enforce the Monroe Doctrine.

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, Two, United States

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