Hostis Herodes Quotes & Sayings

A Saigon Proverb: Doe la chine tran, neu buon la thua. Life is a struggle in which sorrow leads to defeat. — Kim Thuy

I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!"
"Well, I am," said Sal. "So can we go ... please? — Alex Scarrow

If you love language, it will love you back. — John Simon

So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on. — Richard Branson

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble. — Yehuda Berg

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete ... not victory but combat ... not to have vanquished but to have fought well ... not winning but taking part ... — Pierre De Coubertin

At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own reward and then lock the rest up in volatile, insecure and illiquid loans that at times they cannot redeem without public aid. — James Buchan