Acies Latin Quotes

#1. Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.

Lord Acton

#2. I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child.

Grace Jones

#3. A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist.

Desiderius Erasmus

#4. Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

Booth Tarkington

#5. Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

Pam Grier

#6. I suspect guys who say, "I just send out for a sandwich for lunch," as lazy men trying to impress me.

Jimmy Cannon

#7. You are the one who can make one of these true,
you have the power to choose,
you have potential beyond your wildest imagination

Ilchi Lee

#8. In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

Edgar Allan Poe

#9. Anyway, it seems to me a man can do an awful lot of evil in no time at all. Swing of a blade is all it takes. Doing good needs time. And all manner of complicated efforts. Most men don't have the patience for it. 'Specially not these days.

Joe Abercrombie

#10. Could I climb the highest place in Athens, I would lift up my voice and proclaim, Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth, and talk so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?

Socrates

#11. The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.

Rupert Brooke

#12. Talent will not always find its way but commitment will.

Nancy Crow

#13. Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute?

Henry David Thoreau

#14. Just because politicians, scientists, and business execs are raging about it, and newspaper headlines are screaming it, doesn't mean the message sticks - or that people care. It takes more than that to change a culture. In

Jeanne Marie Laskas