Facere Quotes

#1. The word "identification" is derived from the Latin word idem, meaning "same" and facere, which means "to make." So when I identify with something, I "make it the same." The same as what? The same as I. I endow it with a sense of self, and so it becomes part of my "identity.

Eckhart Tolle

#2. A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
[Lat., Mulieri nimio male facere melius est onus, quam bene.]

Plautus

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

Plautus

#4. Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black.
[Lat., Furtum ingeniosus ad omne,
Qui facere assueret, patriae non degener artis,
Candida de nigris, et de candentibus atra.]

Ovid

#5. Make it?" Fred echoed. "Make what? The team? The chick? Make good? Make out? Make sense? Make money? Make time? Define your turns. The Latin for 'make' is facere, which also reminds me of fuckere, which is Latin for 'to fuck', and I haven't ...

Philip K. Dick

#6. I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#7. Breathe in, breathe out, move on...

Jimmy Buffett

#8. It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

James Russell Lowell

#9. We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#10. Some people are moulded by their aspirations, others by their hostilities.

Elizabeth Bowen

#11. The bubble had subsided, leaving only a tiny scar, but the irrational fear of water never quite left her. I never allowed her to forget, not for a moment.

Deepti Menon

#12. I'm almost used to you showing up without shoes, but where the hell are your pants?

Dani Harper

#13. I didn't set out to do a gay comic, but given the current political and religious climate in this country, I feel it is important as a gay person, and a Christian, to create stories with humor and honesty.

Paige Braddock

#14. Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.

Henry David Thoreau

#15. I saw Four, Brandon's Garde, poking his head out from behind Brandon's back. He shyly put his hand out for Nine to take, inviting him to walk to pre-combat together. Seeing this, I hoped Nine would take Four's hand. It was a sweet gesture.

Pittacus Lore

#16. She let him finish her sentences for her for so long that now he starts them too.

David Mitchell