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 !

Eduardo Galeano

We Latins are known for jabbering on.

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.

Thomas B. Macaulay

I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb.

Bob Bradley

A sea of humanity. What a wonderful sight to see at the start.

Ray Ozzie

a seamless weaving of hardware, software and devices.

Eric Hornbeck

As long as I can feel like I'm doing good, I'm going to be here. It could be tomorrow, it could be a month, I don't have those answers. However, if we can keep the search going, I will stay.

Dave Molina

Colfax will be the big one. We can make our season with a win.

Jonathan Lewis

The season is not lost. We're still Virginia Tech.

Barbara Jordan

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.

Carl Sandburg

The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.

Daniel Handler

But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees.

Ayn Rand

The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.

Jandy Nelson

Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.

Demi Lovato

The sky is the limit... for some people aim higher nothing is impossible.

Bret Easton Ellis

Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.

Ben Harper

I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.

Doyle Brunson

There's no life like the life I've lived. You're free like a cloud floating up in the sky.

Robert Montgomery

How oft,—be witness, Guardian of our days!... The sky besprinkled o'er with rainbow hues, As if angelic wings had wanton'd there;...

Stephen Vincent Benet

I died in my boots like a pioneer With the whole wide sky above me.

Rumi

Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.