Habent Quotes & Sayings

Never once have Democrats benefited from attempts at reasonableness and compromise and accommodation. To the contrary, Bush and his team seem to view political compromise as weakness, and they punish it rather than reward or reciprocate it. — Jim Jordan

Aures habent et non audient' - 'They have ears but hear not — Jules Verne

My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language has an effect on meaning. — Mark Z. Danielewski

Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies] — Ernst Junger

Life is a spiritual journey and love is the Milky Way. — Debasish Mridha

Weakness indicates dependence, and there is a degree of trust and tenderness also in it. — Eugene Sue

Welcome to Israel, where the beaches are great, the fruit is succulent, the landscape is mesmerizing, and all of it is stolen. — Remi Kanazi

Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men.
[Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae,
Noctis habent.] — Ovid

I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all. — Jane Austen

Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business, if you have begun to fit them out. Nor are these two things ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them.
[Lat., Negotii sibi qui volet vim parare,
Navem et mulierem, haec duo comparato.
Nam nullae magis res duae plus negotii
Habent, forte si occeperis exornare.
Neque unquam satis hae duae res ornantur,
Neque eis ulla ornandi satis satietas est.] — Plautus

Habent sua fata libelli. (Books have their own destinies.) — Terentianus Maurus

Pro captu lectoris, habent sua fata libelli":
"According to the capacity of the reader,books have their destinies."
— Terentianus Maurus

Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind? — George Berkeley

People were tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers; and they were angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant bureaucrats, and public officials who thought all of mankind's problems could be solved by throwing the taxpayers' dollars at them. — Ronald Reagan

If you can see a bandwagon, it's too late to get on. — Lee Child

What ... are you high? You just told me my hair is beautiful.
Seth — Dianne Duvall

Never let the other fellow set the agenda. — James Baker

My souls sits in silence, and then asks again, where are you in all of this? — Rumi

Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location. — Pete Rozelle

Nurse: "You look like a pharmaceutical rep. you can leave samples in the closet."
Joe: "I'm actually a lawyer."
Nurse: "My condolences. — Jodi Picoult