Quotes About Nostra

#1. Scriptura sacra mentis oculis quasi quoddam speculum opponitur, ut interna nostra facies in ipsa videatur. Holy scripture is placed before the eyes of our mind like a mirror, so that we may view our inner face therein.

Pope Gregory I

#2. Tell him, Cosa Nostra says, HELLAO!

Waheed Ibne Musa

#3. Don Quixote is not just Don Quixote;
La Mancha is not just geography;
It is our personal territory
Terra Nostra.

Dejan Stojanovic

#4. Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower.
[Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.]

Ovid

#5. Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, 'deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.' I repeat, 'By anyone.'

Pope John Paul II

#6. Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Publilius Syrus

#8. What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible.

William Butler Yeats

#9. How else could you explain a sapient species that had overpopulated itself to the point of environmental collapse? This was a people that had coupled themselves stupid.

Becky Chambers

#10. Wallace was just the sort who blends into the background of the school photo (or the greeting line at the cotillion) but who, with the passage of time, increasingly stands out against the lapses in character around him.

Amor Towles

#11. If you're in somebody's head for 12 hours a day for four weeks, it's like your brain actually wires itself to start thinking that way.

Brie Larson

#12. Yes..." I gasped, shocked that I was admitting it. Brianna had caught me with my todger in the cookie jar and I just couldn't deny it, I was overwhelmed with excitement and pure animalistic arousal.

John Key

#13. In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler's increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.

Paul Lafargue

#14. Family has always been the number one priority no matter what happens anywhere else.

Gloria Estefan

#15. When we understand how precious each moment is, we can treat each breath, each moment, as a newborn baby.

Michelle McDonald

#16. You know the classification of cultures into 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian.

Robert A. Heinlein

#17. Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.

Eugene Delacroix

#18. It's not an accident that successful people read more books.

Seth Godin