Impecunious Latin Quotes & Sayings

The reviewers tear me apart. I bleed. I'm a favorite target. They go along for six months looking at movies, praying for rain, and then a new Sandra Dee movie comes out, and their eyes open, and they lick their lips. Before they've ever seen it. — Sandra Dee

The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign is the least. — Mencius

At the end of the day, we get to be parents, greeting our lovely, crazy children and talking about their day, making sure they brush their teeth, so all the tension from our day is tabled ... until the next. — Brad Pitt

By Fortune's adverse buffets overborne
To solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn,
And not in utter loneliness to live,
Myself at last did to the Devil give! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

You waltz with vampires and parade about town with undead monsters, and yet you are afraid of me, Duchess? — Robin Bridges

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief ... I don't need on-the-job training. — John McCain

Hannah with the ponytail was one of those women who laugh readily and can talk nonsense for hours without a single sensible thing being said. In principle I try to ignore people like that as much as possible. I simply choose not to think about them. Make up my mind that they don't exist. — Jonas Karlsson

If a person is in the habit of talking bad about others while around you, that person is more than likely talking bad about you while around others.
Likewise, if a person is in the habit of talking good about others while around you, that person is more than likely talking good about you while around others.
In either case, love and do good to all people. — Calvin W. Allison

Josephine Butler (1828-1907) writes in her journals, pamphlets and diaries of the second half of the nineteenth century about seeing thousands (yes, thousands) of little girls, some as young as four or five, in the illegal brothels of London, Paris, Brussels, and Geneva ... The children had a life expectancy of two years, yet the brothel owners, frquently women, seemed to have an unlimited supply ... 'Clean' children, who were free from venereal disease, commanded a high price. All this is well documented, but strangely Mrs [sic] Butler never mentions little boys, though this branch of the trade must have been going on. — Jennifer Worth

Innovation is not born out out of a committee; innovation is a fight. It's messy, people die, but when the battle is over, something unimaginably significant has been achieved. — Rands

Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls. — Lauren Bacall

Life isn't smooth, but it's the bumps that help us find out who we are. And it's handling the bumps that gives us courage. — Sarah Morgan

Harold was so tired he could barely lift his feet, and yet he felt such hope, he was giddy with it. If he kept looking at the things that were bigger than himself, he knew he would make it to Berwick. — Rachel Joyce

Fire can destroy, but it can also create-provide warmth, protection. — Katie McGarry

Seeing our own smallness is called insight, honoring our own tenderness is called strenght. — Lao-Tzu