Dicere Quotes

#1. Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit. We should not listen to those who like to affirm that the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the tumult of the masses is truly close to madness.

Alcuin

#2. Ridendo dicere severum. (tr. Through what is laughable say what is somber.)

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.

Oprah Winfrey

#4. I was naming the five warriors of our generation who have experience, four out of five I would argue were retired early out of the [Barack] Obama administration because they said things the Obama administration didn't particularly want to hear.

Carly Fiorina

#5. Every suicide is a solution to a problem.

Jean Baechler

#6. What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'

Zach Galligan

#7. No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Charles Sumner

#8. My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.

Anne Lamott