Vetitum Quotes

#1. Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us].

Baruch Spinoza

#2. Nitimur in vetitum"
"We strive after the forbidden

Ovid

#3. I didn't expect the water to be this high

Jill Shalvis

#4. We haven't rushed to set up targets, either in business or in football. Our goal was to understand how to act and then to move gradually.

Sergey Galitsky

#5. I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.

Wynton Marsalis

#6. Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.

Fergus Henderson

#7. You win even if you lose. You will be celebrated to have dared to confront those terrible odds instead of crossing your arms against danger.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#8. I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.

John Major

#9. If I don't have a deadline, I could fuss around with stuff for forever.

Jim Shaw

#10. We have successful, strong-willed, independent women who stand up for conservative, traditional values. Women are leading this movement because they've been raised to be unafraid....I didn't grow up feeling oppressed. I didn't grow up feeling like a victim.

S. E. Cupp

#11. The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.

Julian Baggini

#12. She was writing a letter in her beautiful penmanship, her sentences all like well-made bracelets.

Pat Conroy