Tibi Quotes

#1. Aut viam inveniam aut faciam tibi:
Latin term for If I cannot find a way I will make my own

Kimber S. Dawn

#2. Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta suppellex.

Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there.

Aulus Persius Flaccus

#3. Nemo est qui tibi sapientius suadere possit te ipso: numquam labere, si te audies.
(Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you'll never go wrong.)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#4. Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)

Ovid

#5. May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends.
[Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos
Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.]

Ovid

#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. Julia. At the most basic level a Roman husband had only to utter the phrase 'take your things for yourself' (tuas res tibi habeto) to separate from his wife.

Adrian Goldsworthy

#8. Aut viam inveniam aut faciam tibi.
I will either find a way or make one.

Kendall Ryan

#9. If you spend a thing you can not have it.
[Lat., Non tibi illud apparere si sumas potest.]

Plautus

#10. Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.

Diana Gabaldon

#11. It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage.
[Lat., Tempus abire tibi est, ne ...
Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.]

Horace

#12. Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself.
[Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#13. Nothing is stronger than Custom
(Fac tibi consuescat: nil adsuetudine maius)

Ovid

#14. Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends.
[Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.]

Juvenal

#15. Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there.
[Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.]

Aulus Persius Flaccus

#16. Quid nomen tibi est? She was not about to offer her name up to a stranger. It was almost the only thing she possessed that nobody had stolen.

Ruth Downie

#17. America's strength is that it is capable of accepting people into its communities.

Bassam Tibi

#18. Unlike multiculturalism, cultural pluralism doesn't just mean diversity but also togetherness - primarily the understanding of the rules of the game - the European values structure.

Bassam Tibi

#19. The accusation of cultural insensitivity is a weapon.

Bassam Tibi

#20. The weaker the partner is viewed by the Muslims, then the greater the anger which they express. And this anger is often carefully staged.

Bassam Tibi

#21. Muslims have to give up three things if they want to become Europeans: They have to bid farewell to the idea of converting others, and renounce the Jihad. The third thing they need to give up is the Shariah, which is the Islamic legal system.

Bassam Tibi

#22. A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible.

Bassam Tibi

#23. Almost 20 percent of the people living in Germany today have a foreign background. The problem is that Germany can't really offer foreigners an identity because the Germans hardly have a national identity themselves. That is certainly a result of Auschwitz.

Bassam Tibi

#24. In Islam tolerance means that Christians and Jews are allowed to live under the protection of Muslims but never as citizens with the same rights. What Muslims call tolerance is nothing other than discrimination.

Bassam Tibi

#25. A lot of people don't know if Denmark is a country or a cheese.

Bassam Tibi

#26. Accusing somebody of racism is a very effective weapon in Germany. Islamists know this: As soon as you accuse someone of demonizing Islam, then the European side backs down.

Bassam Tibi

#27. Pluralism and tolerance are pillars of modern society. That has to be accepted. But pluralism doesn't just mean diversity. It means that we share the same rules and values, and are still nevertheless different. Islam doesn't have this idea. And Islam also has no tradition of tolerance.

Bassam Tibi

#28. Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their civilization. They confuse tolerance with relativism.

Bassam Tibi

#29. The Jihad is not just a way of testing yourself but also means using violence to spread Islam.

Bassam Tibi

#30. I myself am Muslim and I stand on the side of an open society.

Bassam Tibi