Latin Quotes · Page 6

There is a middle ground in things.

— Horace

I shall not completely die.

— Horace

Limbs of a dismembered poet.

— Horace

“Ostendes tuum et ostendam meus?”

— Maggie Stiefvater

Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

— James Rollins

The words can not return.

— Horace

One Sallow does not make Summer.

— Horace

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

— Horace

I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin).

— Charles Clarke

The difficulty of being a Latin kid, a Latin man in this country [U.S].

— John Leguizamo

“If you don’t speak Greek, how do you know if it’s all Greek to you?”

— Jarod Kintz

Not only am I a female, but I'm Latina.

— Julianna Pena

One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.

— John Lancaster Spalding

One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.

— Horace

“Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus [ never tickle a sleeping dragon ]”

— J.K. Rowling

“Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.”

— Virgil

It's a privilege to work as an anchor for Univision, but more important, I am amazed by how Latinos are transforming America.

— Jorge Ramos

A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back…

— Maynard James Keenan

I love the dancing and the music from Latin cultures. I went to a Flamenco show in Spain once, and it completely…

— Torrey DeVitto

Comrade [Rafael] Correa gets it right, most of the time. This is new, 'final' offensive of the Empire in Latin America.

— Andre Vltchek

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

— Mario Vazquez

Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well.

— Robert McAfee Brown

Fortunately, war in Latin America is usually waged only with words. The tongue is our most dangerous weapon. We talk too much!

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus — man is a wolf to man—... is a libel on the wolf, which is a…

— Geoffrey Gorer

When I first started studying Greek, one of my absolute favorite parts was realizing that so many English words had these old,…

— Madeline Miller

The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring…

— George Orwell

According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last…

— Luis Gutierrez

Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if…

— Carl Sagan

The latin word responsibility reveals its true meaning: the capacity to respond, to act. - Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy…

— Paulo Coelho

The less a writer discusses his work and himself the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room; the…

— Jack Vance

I'd be terrified even now for a Latin kid wanting to be an actor, but back then? Forget it. They must have…

— John Leguizamo

In terms of language, English is very dominant vis-Ã-vis African language. That in itself is a power relationship - between languages and…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' about the Olympic Games. I wrote 'Love Story,'…

— Erich Segal

I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such…

— George Orwell

The arguments of waste are heavily overdone, because what you do is to accelerate the infrastructure that you have to build anyway,…

— Martin Sorrell

“Common-Law judges sometimes talk about the law, and schoolmasters talk about the latin tongue, in a way to make their hearers think…

— William James

You know what the bodega is? It's the little Latin store, and they try to act like it's a grocery store. It…

— Godfrey

Just when I get my church all sorted out, sheep from the goats, saved from the damned, hopeless from the hopeful, somebody…

— William Henry Willimon

With My Dog-Eyes by Hilda Hilst got more exposure and reached far more readers than I ever expected. Even my editor at…

— Adam Morris

When you have difficult issues on the table for discussion, then sometimes for Africa you may have Burundi or Gambia representing them…

— Kofi Annan