Quotes about latin
latin islands sea
The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery. Noam Chomsky
latin america pathology
Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.
latin matter workmanship
The workmanship was better than the subject matter. Ovid
latin lacking commendable
Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable.
latin teaching drawing
...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is there to begin with...I want all of my students and all of my dancers to be aware of the poignancy of life at that moment. I would like to feel that I had, in some way, given them the gift of themselves. Martha Graham
latin stupid mean
And this shows that people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. And it shows that something called Occam's razor is true. And Occam's razor is not a razor that men shave with but a Law, and it says: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. Which is Latin and it means: No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary. Which means that a murder victim is usually killed by someone known to them and fairies are made out of paper and you can't talk to someone who is dead. Mark Haddon
latin greek doubt
There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear. Michel de Montaigne
latin greek notion
Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones. George Orwell
latin people greek
In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them. George Mikes
latin greek mets
I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation. Joseph Addison
latin ambition america
Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard. Jose Saramago
latin book school
I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school. Hermann Hesse
latin soul tea
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. Hilaire Belloc
latin conquer poet
What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence. Henry Fielding
latin cry loud
I'm Latin, for crying out loud - I can't hold anything back! Odette Annable
latin wife looks
My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, 'That's what I am' Oscar de la Renta
latin god-love young
Whom the gods love dies young. Menander
latin mean strategy
The fast growing markets - the BRICS and Next Eleven - are the key. The next billion consumers are not going to come from the US or Western Europe - they are coming from Asia, Latin America and Africa. Formula One follows our strategy: fast growing markets, data, and digital. All those three things Formula One has. And it involves a stunning array of companies. Now that doesn't mean there can't be more... Martin Sorrell
latin argument latin-america
The arguments of waste are heavily overdone, because what you do is to accelerate the infrastructure that you have to build anyway, like airports and roads, and in this case it happens much faster. So speaking of a roadmap, without being specific, I would still go for Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East - that's what our clients are really interested in.
latin integrity mean
We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ... Knowledge is our destiny. Jacob Bronowski
latin reading school
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
latin america people
I would just want to wish President Obama the best of luck, and that he should bear in mind that just as he is a good person, there are many of us presidents in Latin America who are also good people. Rafael Correa
latin america accumulation
The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation.
latin singers wells
I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers. Rafael Nadal
latin doctors people
By the way, were we to find life-forms on Venus, we would probably call them Venutians, just as people from Mars would be Martians. But according to rules of Latin genitives, to be “of Venus” ought to make you a Venereal. Unfortunately, medical doctors reached that word before astronomers did. Can’t blame them, I suppose. Venereal disease long predates astronomy, which itself stands as only the second oldest profession. Neil deGrasse Tyson
latin should-have years
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
latin reading discipline
One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course, simply amazing. God is an extremely uneven writer, but when He's good, nobody can touch Him. John W. Gardner
latin simple doctors
Let all your preaching be in the most simple and plainest manner; look not to the prince, but to the plain, simple, gross, unlearned people, of which cloth the prince also himself is made. If I, in my preaching, should have regard to Philip Melancthon and other learned doctors, then should I do but little good. I preach in the simplest manner to the unskillful, and that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and Latin I spare until we learned ones come together. Martin Luther
latin dancing three
I love dancing to Latin music, so I have a trainer who dances with me for an hour three times a week. Sofia Vergara
latin tv-shows perfect
I never thought I would get such a perfect role in 'Modern Family.' A lot of TV shows now are looking for more Latin women.
latin believe america
In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive.
latin ignorance hair
I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent, but I had blonde hair. It was ignorance: they thought every Latin person looks like Salma Hayek.
latin body littles
Latin women are very comfortable with their bodies and their sexuality. We aren't afraid to show that off a little bit more.