Nominibus Quotes

#1. To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
[Lat., Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.]

Tacitus

#2. I believe everything you tell me, but I know that it will all turn out differently.

Henry Miller

#3. you have been q the helper of the fatherless.

Anonymous

#4. In his student days he was known for a sharp slanderous tongue, for irreverance to his seniors, for drinking and gaming for high stakes. But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?

Hilary Mantel

#5. 'The grief didn't fade, but it changed into something I could carry around with me, a noose I wore around my neck. It wasn't until I saw you that the knot loosened.'

Sara Bell

#6. No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#7. Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope

William Shakespeare

#8. So, your dad's hot."
"Thanks. He was that way when I met him, so I can't really take credit.

Ally Carter

#9. There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.

Damon Hill

#10. No one can define success for you, but you.

Earnest Robinson Jr.

#11. It's as if I've inherited a skin I cannot quite fit, and so I walk about constantly pulling and and tugging, pinning and pruning, trying desperately to fill it out, hoping that no one will look at me struggling and say, 'That one there- she's a fraud, Look how she doesn't fit at all.

Libba Bray