Majorem Quotes & Sayings

Now, personally, I'd have been happier driving an armored personnel carrier in through the front door. But since we're the Met, and not the police department of a small town in Missouri, we didn't have one. — Ben Aaronovitch

You don't look like the librarians I remember," he told her.
"We've changed. There was a whole press release issued about it, but we didn't get much media coverage. — Susan Mallery

Without complexity, there's no intensity. — Alexandra Adornetto

Money numbs your senses. People who touched paper money and then placed their hands in hot burning water didn't feel as much pain as those who hadn't touched money. — Kabir Sehgal

Ad majorem Dei gloriam - to the greater glory of God. — John Irving

I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses. — Anton Chekhov

a pair of storefronts. Charlie Brody fell in love with and married a girl named Marion Cuomo, whose — Jerry Capeci

The crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion to the flag, a leader, a religeous faith or political conviction. — Arthur Koestler

I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don't use it, what's the point of being in the room? — Michelle Obama

The Bolshevik slogans and ideas on the whole have been confirmed by history; but concretely things have worked out differently; they are more original, more peculiar, more varied than anyone could have expected. — Vladimir Lenin

Science has taken away our religion. — Bryan Appleyard

I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of war, and through the whole of this week I had in view the probable contingency that we should not decide at the critical moment to support France. — Edward Grey

Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one. — Elbert Hubbard