Idem 1 Quotes

#1. No One Is a Relativist at the Bank

John Piper

#2. You mean that's your idea of desire, with all those commas?

Michael Palmer

#3. From time immemorial we've been cleaning up after male messes. When a man does it for a woman, it's called being rescued. When a woman does it for a man, it's housework.

Kate Meader

#4. Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker.
[Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]

Horace

#5. 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

#6. The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.

Rumi

#7. One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.

Ruth Reichl

#8. Let no one say that I have said nothing new ... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.

Blaise Pascal

#9. I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

Karl Lagerfeld

#10. We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

Giacomo Leopardi

#11. If the devil can't steal your soul, he'll just keep you busy doing meaningless church work.

Shane Claiborne

#12. I'm just not a quitter and I just never, ever give up. I was forced to adapt because if I didn't, I was losing inspiration only doing what I was doing.

Ricky Schroder

#13. I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog ... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.

Mindy Kaling

#14. To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
[Lat., Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est.]

Sallust

#15. I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer.
[Lat., Et idem
Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.]

Horace

#16. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.

Neil Young