Verba Quotes

#1. You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class).
[Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]

Aulus Persius Flaccus

#2. Nullius in verba was the Royal Society's motto. Don't take anyone's word for it.

James Gleick

#3. Res, non verba,' actions not words.

Miranda Davis

#4. A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
[Lat., Vulgus ignavum et nihil ultra verba ausurum.]

Tacitus

#5. Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.

Umberto Eco

#6. Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble.
[Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes),
Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!]

Ovid

#7. Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

Ovid

#8. It's important to score some goals and make the decisive pass for my club.

Robert Laurent

#9. I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

Sting

#10. The truth is, we want to be known; we truly do. But we're afraid. If you see the real me, will you run away? Am I even worth being known? Will the real me bore you? Scare you? Repulse you? And so we hide.

Gary L. Thomas

#11. There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.

Martin Gore

#12. He bade the slave ships speed from coast to coast, Fanned by the wings of the Holy Ghost.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#13. You must make your dream a priority in order for it to become your life

Bob Proctor

#14. There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.

Hermann Hesse

#15. Rapists who might've been convicted were free to assault other women.

Terry Gross

#16. Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.

Samora Machel