Alienum Quotes

#1. [My] rheumatism has come in again"

Ivan, cynically, "The devil have rheumatism!"

"Why not, if I sometimes put on fleshly form? I put on fleshly form and I take the consequences. Satan sum et nihil humanum a me alienum puto."*

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. Nihil humanum a me alienum puto, said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens are human.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
I am human, and think nothing human alien to me.

Terence

#4. Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me.

Terence

#5. Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity."

Kenny Smith

#6. But, if I dare say it, it wasn't until I had helped kill a man that I realized how elusive and complex an act a murder can actually be, and not necessarily attributable to one dramatic motive.

Donna Tartt

#7. It has been a pleasure to play with all these artists. Pretenders was a real highlight, but also Damon, aka Badly Drawn Boy, Sinead ... Ian Brown ... all of these people I learn from and love to work with.

Andy Rourke

#8. You don't control their minds, ma fifille, you control their hearts - Cosette

Alys Arden

#9. How little do the wisest among us know of that which is so important to us all.

Hans Christian Andersen

#10. No fox is foxier than man!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. The Dalai Lama says don't pray for peace, don't wait for peace, don't talk about peace - do it right now.

Pico Iyer