Latin Leisure Quotes & Sayings

I never pursued being 'famous.' — Francesca Annis

The fact of the matter is that the Internet has brought together millions of people who trust one another for reasons that are unknown. — Ben Huh

I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a basket of eggs in their smooth compactness and oval formality. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

In Aristotle ... leisure is a far more noble, spiritual goal than work ... leisure is pursued solely for its own sake ... : the pleasures of music and poetry, ... conversation with friends, and ... gratuitous, playful speculation. In Latin, the ultimate good is otium - the opposite is negotium, or gainful work.
We have sought too much counsel in the proto-Calvinist work ethic preached by St Paul ... during the cessation of work we nurture family, educate, nourish friendships ... in loafing, most of our innovations come ... the routine of daily work has too often served as ... sleep ... a refuge from two crucial states - awakedness to the needs of others, and to the transcendent, which only comes ... loitering, dallying, tarrying, goofing off. — Francine Du Plessix Gray

There's just something about Highbury that is difficult to describe. When you first arrive, you hardly see the stadium and wonder where it is but then you find it between two blocks of flats — Thierry Henry

We don't have problems", Gabriel insisted.
You killed someone!
I killed someone for you!
Well, pardon me if I don't think that's going to make it into the next collection of Halmark cards!" (p. 301). — Molly Harper

Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them. — Jill Lepore

To be associated with a film that just flat-out makes people happy is such a blessing and a tremendous privilege, and I'll always be grateful for it. People's eyes light up when they talk about it. I've been in Asia, Africa, Europe and even Bhutan; people know the movie there. It's just an amazing thing. — Michael J. Fox

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss. — Michael Cunningham

He'd fallen in love with Quinn slowly, quietly. With Dima, it was like a baseball bat upside the head, these feelings. They completely swamped him, made him want different things, made him want to be different. — Avril Ashton

When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player. — Leigh Steinberg

Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold
Athena heading out on a Friday night. — Jim Butcher

God gives the exact experiences he wants them to have in order to shape the specific destiny he designed for them. — Steven Furtick

When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders. — Frantz Fanon

Let it be love that you are living in. — Debasish Mridha

I've been on the opposite side of decisions before when the crowd would be booing and saying that I lost. I've lived with it. Judging in boxing has been same since the beginning, and it isn't gonna change. — George Foreman