Sumus Quotes

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.

Horace

#3. We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude.
[Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]

Ovid

#4. Pulvis et umbra sumus," said James once, out loud in class, after hearing too many whispers. "My father says that sometimes. We are but dust and shadows. Maybe I'm just -getting a head start on all of you.

Cassandra Clare

#5. Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)

Horace

#6. Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.

Epicurus

#7. We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved.
[Lat., Dociles imitandis
Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]

Juvenal

#8. The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

Oprah Winfrey

#9. We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

Barack Obama

#10. Under peaceful conditions, the warlike man attacks himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state.

Tom Holland

#12. I can't go to war with paparazzi.

Daniel Craig

#13. The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. Ever since 1980, sci-fi has generally been more Bladerunner than Star Wars. People talk about Star Wars being the most influential movie of all time and creating the blockbuster along with Jaws and that sort of thing, but really there's not been a space opera that anyone can go and see.

Mark Millar

#15. It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

Northrop Frye

#16. Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.

Carl Zuckmayer