Nobis Quotes

#1. Non nobis solum nati sumus.
(Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. There is a God within us and intercourse with heaven.
[Lat., Est deus in nobis; et sunt commercia coeli.]

Ovid

#3. Left behind as a memory for us.
[Lat., Nobis meminisse relictum.]

Statius

#4. Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent

Publilius Syrus

#5. One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
[Lat., Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem,
Non ponebat enim rumores ante salutem.]

Quintus Ennius

#6. When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

Maya Angelou

#7. I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

Bobby Seale

#8. Some want to be writers when life permits it. There is no part-time in being a writer. It's an all-in way of living your life through words and feelings scratched out with a pen.

Jason E. Hodges

#9. There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#10. She reeked of tenure

Kim Harrison

#11. According to Montaigne, it was the oppressive notion that we had complete mental control over our bodies, and the horror of departing from this portrait of normality, that had left the man unable to perform sexually.

Alain De Botton