Exemplum X Quotes & Sayings

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one. — Barack Obama

That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future. — Francois Hollande

I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carried by most people who serve in the armed forces or the circumstances that push lots of folks into the military. I don't blame G.I. Joe or Rambo for that atmosphere, but they certainly reflected the final stage of a two generation cultural myth. — Nate Powell

Okay we both know... what happens... with sex... different places... different time... different date... different rooms... the biatch is still bitchy.... very bitchy as pitchy.... The agony - DOOOOOO YOU FEEL IT?

- wE JUST PREDICTED THE FUTURE! — Deyth Banger

The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing.
[Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.] — Horace

Every person should have their escape route planned. I think everyone has an apocalypse fantasy, what would I do in the event of the end of the world, and we just basically - me and Nick - said what would we do, where would we head? — Simon Pegg

Learn to work with people you wouldn't go to lunch with. — Garry Marshall

Passion gives power while attitude designs excellence! You can do it because you have the passion; you can do it very well because you have the right attitude! — Israelmore Ayivor

Natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. — Rachel Carson

You learn more from the flops than from the hits. — Theodore Bikel

If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time. — William Goldman

But like all things, the business has two sides. Clean white teeth are not always wise, now are they? Par exemplum: when I was in the Congo, the only way I could identify the nigger was by the whiteness of his teeth, if you see what I mean. Horrid business. Dark as buggery, it was. And they died because of it, you see? Poor bastards. Or rather I survived, to look at it in another way, do you see? — Zadie Smith

Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.
[Lat., Nemo me lacrymis decoret, nec funera fletu.
Faxit cur? Volito vivu' per ora virum.] — Quintus Ennius

To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on — Richard Gere

It was actually an Israeli cartoonist, Nurit Karlin, who made me think that I could draw for 'The New Yorker.' I saw her work published in the magazine in the early 1970s - she was the only woman working as a cartoonist at 'The New Yorker' at the time. — Liza Donnelly

A nation has character only when it is free. — Bill Vaughan

Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery. — Benjamin Disraeli