Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Gini

The term power comes from the Latin posse- to do, to be able, to change, to influence or effect. To have power is to possess the capacity to control or direct change. All forms of leadership must make use of power. The central issue of power in leadership is not Will it be used? But rather Will it be used wisely and well?

Desi Arnaz

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.

Arthur Schopenhauer

How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !

Tom Hardy

I'm from East Sheen, I went to public school where I learned Latin at the age of nine, and certain expectations were made of me to go to St Paul's, Oxbridge maybe, and all that kind of thing. And I failed systematically to meet the mark - who I am and what I should have been are two very different things.

Saint Patrick

That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models; and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled.

Thomas B. Macaulay

In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.

Tim Blake Nelson

I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.

Suzanne Farrell

I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be.

Tom Phillips

These are all make-weight arguments, because somebody is mad about something,

Bram Stoker

I sometimes think we must all be mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.

Brandon Sanderson

I am what the universe made me to be, my dear.

Candy Crowley

I still get mad. I still get upset. But I let it go more quickly.

C. S. Lewis

The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

Diana Vreeland

Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.

Diana Wynne Jones

Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them.

Brandon Boyd

Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.

Billy Carter

The press made me something I really wasn't and I tried to live up to what they made me.

Bob Dylan

What drives me to you, drives me insane.

Eckhart Tolle

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

S. E. Hinton

Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.

Veronica Roth

You want him to walk?" Caleb demands. "Are you insane?" "Did I shoot him in the leg?" I say. "No. He walks. Where do we go, Peter?

Suzanne Collins

if he goes and dies on me now, I know I'll go completely insane.

Francis Ford Coppola

We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.

Chrissy Teigen

I always get to eat what I want because if I don't, I go insane.

Henry Miller

What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?

Henry Miller

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.