Etiam Quotes

#1. History seemed meaningless here, or at least bewildered.

China Mieville

#2. Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare - the brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone

Tacitus

#3. A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
[Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#4. To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.
[Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#5. Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.
[Lat., Accedit etiam mors, quae quasi saxum Tantalo semper impendit: tum superstitio, qua qui est imbutus quietus esse numquam potest.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#6. Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice?

Diane Glancy

#7. Est etiam, ubi profecto damnum praestet facere, quam lucrum - there are occasions when it is certainly better to lose than to gain

Plautus

#8. You're playing dirty," she whispered.
"Did you want me any other way?

Lisa Kessler

#9. We are sons of God
And must be even as he.

Sri Aurobindo

#10. Know not what you know, and see not what you see.
[Lat., Etiam illud quod scies nesciveris;
Ne videris quod videris.]

Plautus

#11. Roberts knocked, heard: 'Enter.' Thought: 'Wanker.

Ken Bruen

#12. During the day, memories could be held at bay, but at night, dreams became the devil's own accomplices.

Sharon Kay Penman

#13. My audience expects cold, hard truth. They don't expect me to dance around it. They expect me to say it the way they think it. That's part of my brand. If I don't do that, then my audience goes, 'What's up? Is he sick or something? What's wrong with him?' The entity has a brand.

Roland Martin

#14. If the country's poorer, it's got less money.

George Osborne

#15. Novel writing seems an altogether less intimidating occupation when one considers that one only need produce a small tale.

Charlie Lovett

#16. Always carry a camera, it's tough to shoot a picture without one.

Jay Maisel

#17. I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.

Jenna Dewan

#18. Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

Ludwig Borne

#19. The minute I think I'm getting mellow, I'm retiring. Who ever heard of a mellow winner?

Woody Hayes

#20. People know when you're frontin'.

Method Man

#21. It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage.
[Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit.
Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]

Plautus