Latin Quotes - Page 33

• I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

  Augustus

  Rome, Cities, Bricks

  "The Twelve Caesars" by Suetonius, August 28, 2013.

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• Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

  Horace

  Movie, Wise, Positivity

  Horace, Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz (2008). “The Odes of Horace”, p.27, JHU Press

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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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• The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.

  Publilius Syrus

  Wise, Complicated Relationship, Complicated

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• While there's life, there is hope.

  Stephen Hawking

  Hope, Life Is Short, Ouch

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• There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

  Seneca the Younger

  Stars, History, Earth

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• Furthermore, the Latin American nuclear-weapon free zone which is now nearing completion has become in several respects an example which, notwithstanding the different characteristics of each region, is rich in inspiration.

  Alfonso Garcia Robles

  Inspiration, Example, Different

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• In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play.

  Alan Watts

  Philosophy, Mean, Playing Games

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Greek, Ignorant, Agnostic

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• Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Greek, Quiver, Quotations

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• Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, dis and sentire) means originally to feel apart from others. People who disagree have an argument, but people who dissent have a quarrel. People may disagree and both may count themselves in the majority. But a person who dissents is by definition in a minority. A liberal society thrives on disagreement but is killed by dissension. Disagreement is the life blood of democracy, dissension is its cancer.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Cancer, Mean, Blood

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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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• Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of Sacralizing person and community.

  Ivan Illich

  America, Community, Church

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The church, change, and development”

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• We Latins are known for jabbering on.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Known

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• It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not an expression or a series of expressions, but literally a volume, a prism with six rectangular sides made of thin sheets of papers which should include a cover, an inside cover, an epigraph in italics, a preface, nine or ten parts with some verses at the beginning, a table of contents, an ex libris with an hourglass and a Latin phrase, a brief list of errata, some blank pages, a colophon and a publication notice: objects that are known to constitute the art of writing.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Book, Writing

  "Evaristo Carriego" by Jorge Luis Borges, (Ch. 3), 1930.

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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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• 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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• I'm a bit of a traditionalist; the ballroom is all about tails and I never mess about with that. But for the Latin you can have a bit fun: tight trousers, gold shirt open to my waist, be a bit ridiculous.

  Anton du Beke

  Fun, Gold, Tails

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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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• Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked out what I thought would be most useful to me, particularly chemistry, which opened a new world, mathematics and physics, a little Greek and Latin, botany and and geology. I was far from satisfied with what I had learned, and should have stayed longer.

  John Muir

  Science, Years, Should Have

  John Muir (2006). “Essential Muir”, Heyday

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• There's the old saying that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. There are few better places to apply that adage than the drug war. It's time to end it. It's time to restore peace and harmony to Latin America and the United States. It's time to end the failed war on drugs. It's time to legalize drugs.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  War, America, Insanity

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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