Meum Latin Quotes & Sayings

You make kingdoms and castles on your own. — Stephan Jenkins

Picture a bird perched on a thin branch, she [Miss Saeki] says. 'The branch sways in the wind, and each time this happens the bird's field of vision shifts. You know what I mean?'
I nod.
'When that happens, how do you think the bird adjusts?'
I shake my head. 'I don't know.'
'It bobs its head up and down, making up for the sway of the branch. Take a good look at birds the next time it's windy. I spend a lot of time looking out that window. Don't you think that kind of life would be tiresome? Always shifting your head every time the branch you're on sways?'
'I do.'
'Birds are used to it. It comes naturally to them. They don't have to think about it, they just do it. So it's not as tiring as we imagine. But I'm a human being, not a bird, so sometimes it does get tiring. — Haruki Murakami

You still love her."
"More than my next breath. — Abbi Glines

The facade of grief may be indifference, preoccupation, anger, cheerfulness, or any variety of emotions. But if we try to understand it, we may learn how to cope with it. — Billy Graham

Ah, typical writing day? Well, I tend to do e-mail and the business stuff of writing more in the morning while my brain wakes up and then write more in the afternoon, sometimes from about 11 until 5, or 12 until 5. If a story is driving me nuts, I'll work more in the evenings, but usually I try not to do that. That's family time. — Shiloh Walker

For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a contradiction in terms — Kurt Vonnegut

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him. — Desiderius Erasmus

'Es cor meum,' he murmured, his eyes dancing over my face.
Though I'd never heard the phrase, I responded: 'Ut tu meus.' As you are mine. — T.J. Klune

An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many another in a great work. A man may often draw something with his pen on a half sheet of paper in one day ... and it shall be fuller of art and better than another's great work whereon he hath spent a whole year's careful labor. — Albrecht Durer

Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make
bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake
if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble. Making assumptions simply means believing things are a certain way with little or no evidence that shows you are correct, and you can see at once how this can lead to terrible trouble. For instance, one morning you might wake up and make the assumption that your bed was in the same place that it always was, even though you would have no real evidence that this was so. But when you got out of your bed, you might discover that it had floated out to sea, and now you would be in terrible trouble all because of the incorrect assumption that you'd made. You can see that it is better not to make too many assumptions, particularly in the morning. — Lemony Snicket

The story of my marriage, which is the great joy and astonishment of my life, is too much like a fairy tale, the German kind, unsweetened by Disney. — Ann Patchett

We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves. — George Santayana

My Chief Rabbit has told me to stay and defend this run, and until he says otherwise, I shall stay here.
Bigwig — Richard Adams

David Frankfurter's valuable, well-written study takes us to the far reaches of demonology. In documenting the harm done by labeling others evil, he poses a challenge to those of us who believe, however regretfully, in the necessity of the concept. — Robert Jay Lifton

Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty. — Nick Hornby