Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Acton

It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for the acts of the State -- ideas long locked in the breast of solitary thinkers, and hidden among Latin folios -- burst forth like a conqueror upon the world they were destined to transform, under the title of the Rights of Man ... and the principle gained ground, that a nation can never abandon its fate to an authority it cannot control.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

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

Luis Gutierrez

According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.

Pepe Serna

My father was an interpreter for all the Latin American pilots at the naval base. He was very well educated. My mother was a hairdresser who sang every day.

Jerry Gonzalez

This is something that's going to resonate with Latino voters in November. We're going to remember it.

Stephen Leacock

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

Ray McGovern

I knew about some experience on the operational part of the CIA with Latin American services and so forth having to do with torture. But this was the first time that the CIA was openly advocating for permission to be able to torture. And that seemed to me so abhorrent that I wanted to disassociate myself from the CIA for the first time since 1963, because I didn't want to be associated in any way, however remotely, with an agency engaged in torture.

Stephen Stills

I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms

Thomas B. Macaulay

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

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

I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb.

Tim Blake Nelson

I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.

Vera Wang

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.

Robin Williams

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

Richelle Mead

Sydney! Stop. Think of something else. Conjugate Latin verbs. Recite the periodic table.

Ruben Blades

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

Thomas Sowell

Someone recently pointed out how much Barack Obama's style and strategies resemble those of Latin American charismatic despots - the takeover of industries by demagogues who never ran a business, the rousing rhetoric of resentment addressed to the masses and the personal cult of the leader promoted by the media. But do we want to become the world's largest banana republic?

Richard Lederer

English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. Its the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.

Ricardo Montalban

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.

Sandra Cisneros

My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention, so we exchanged books and bounced off one another.

Roselyn Sanchez

I admire them [latinos] for making their way up and opening new opportunities for other Latin newcomers. Latinos have come a long way and the roles and opportunities just seem to be improving.

Robert Zoellick

In London, Washington, and Paris people talk of bonuses or no bonuses. In parts of Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, the struggle is for food or no food.

Sarah Mlynowski

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck chlamydia?

Sanford I. Weill

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

Virgil

If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.

Virgil

What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.

Virgil

Is there so much anger in the minds of the gods?

Virgil

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

Virgil

Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC) The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all...

Virgil

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

William Tecumseh Sherman

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

William Jones

The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.

William Safire

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.