Original Latin Quotes

#1. I came, I saw, she conquered. The original Latin seems to have been garbled.

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. In its original Latin form, sacrifice means to make sacred or to make holy. I wholeheartedly believe that when we are fully engaged in parenting, regardless of how imperfect, vulnerable, and messy it is, we are creating something sacred.

Brene Brown

#3. Halsted called this procedure the "radical mastectomy," using the word radical in the original Latin sense to mean "root"; he was uprooting cancer from its very source.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#4. Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.

Max Baucus

#5. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - W. B. Yeats

Daniel Coyle

#6. Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So flew'd, so sanded; their heads are hung with ears that sweep away the morning dew ...

William Shakespeare

#7. I WANNA GET ROUGH!"
"I NEED TO GET ROWDY!"
"I'M FEELING KINDA RECKLESS!

Kimball Lee

#8. You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.

John Lydon

#9. Sometimes he wrote equations, or musical notation, sometimes he wrote in Latin; he refused to tell her what it was about. "Nothing," he said. "I have nothing important or original to say, yet I feel compelled to express myself, so I just write it down and let it go.

Gwendolen Gross

#10. My absolute favourite one is " Seize the Day " I did Latin for A level and the same in the original, " Carpe Diem " is now a great T shirt and coffee mug logo. I love it.

Judith Thomas

#11. You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it.

Freddie Mercury

#12. The word amateur derives from the Latin word amator, which means lover, devoted friend, or someone who is in avid pursuit of an objective. In the original sense, an amateur is someone who does something for the love of it.

Ken Robinson

#13. For me the form, the stanzaic shape, is an endorsement, proof that I'm engaged with the Latin or Greek at an original level, that my versions are explorations.

Michael Longley

#14. We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.

Edward Young

#15. There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.

Philip Johnson

#16. I was lucky enough to see the original cast of 'In the Heights.' This one blew my mind. The infusion of Latin, hip hop and rap with musical theatre, great storytelling and talent was a powerful combination to me during a time when I'd not been moved by much!

Josh Young

#17. I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then started Latin. I had finally found something I enjoyed and was good at: dead languages!

Caroline Lawrence

#18. Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language - it's from the Latin word cor, meaning heart - and the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.

Brene Brown

#19. You get in its way, you get paved over. If you can find a way to live in the cracks, you can thrive anywhere. There were always cracks.

James S.A. Corey

#20. The original meaning of dilapidate (from the Latin dilapidare, to squander) was to allow a building to fall into a state of disrepair. In New York dilapidators are simply known as landlords. also

Ammon Shea

#21. What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.

Wayne Dyer

#22. I love you," Kenneth said, with terrible dispassion, "but I would not burn the Library of Alexandria for you"; and Anita, drily sobbing, cried, "You son of a bitch.

Jincy Willett