Nitimur Quotes

#1. Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us].

Baruch Spinoza

#2. Nitimur in vetitum"
"We strive after the forbidden

Ovid

#3. The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights.

Barack Obama

#4. When you act with your heart, the universe conspires to help with your act.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

Shirley Chisholm

#6. Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest Him.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#7. For the past weeks I'd been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You instigate the action. You make the opponent react to you.

Richard Marcinko

#8. There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.

W. H. Auden

#9. The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.

James Otis

#10. There are many things in my life I want to forget. But this I intend to remember.

Brynn Kelly

#11. The wind hums low with sweet exultation, sings its lullaby, while you sleep ...

John Geddes

#12. proximity/intimacy is not the same thing as connectivity: it is at best an elaboration, at worst a slippage.

John Tomlinson

#13. I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.

Kate Upton