Morituri Quotes & Sayings

When I think about my great conversations with Marlon Brando on the set of 'Morituri,' I think there's a story there, just as I do with my experience working with James Cameron on 'Titanic.' And then there are all my years on 'Y&R' and all that has happened there. — Eric Braeden

I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form. — Claire Danes

Just for a fleeting split second his mind let go of its desperate chant: Nobody can hear me here, and replaced it with a glorious, admirable, proud: Morituri te salutant. — Ciaran O. Dwynvil

That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself. — Taryn Manning

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have? — Kathleen Turner

Even evil bastards like Frank Begbie probabably attained an angelic innocence when they were out for the count. — Irvine Welsh

Morituri Non Cognant (Those Who are About to Die, Just Don't know) — Tom Clancy

I'm not done with acting but do find my hands full with my current responsibilities. Soon, sometime soon. — Christopher Knight

Often far away there I thought of these two, guarding the door of Darkness, knitting black wool as for a warm pall, one introducing, introducing continuously to the unknown, the other scrutinizing the cheery and foolish faces with unconcerned old eyes. Ave! Old knitter of black wool. Morituri te salutant. Not many of those she looked at ever saw her again
not half, by a long way. — Joseph Conrad

However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

An established government has an infinite advantage, by that very circumstance of its being established
the bulk of mankind being governed by authority, not reason, and never attributing authority to anything that has not the recommendation of antiquity. — David Hume

I don't mind your calling me a clog, if only we were fastened together."
"But I do mind you calling me a donkey," he replied. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Having joy in God not because of circumstances but despite circumstances is what makes God look great - and it's a true joy that comes from within. — Jefferson Bethke

I think everything happens as it's supposed to. I don't want to force anything. I want it to be so authentic that it's seamless. — Dwyane Wade

The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom — Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces. — Lewis Thomas

Mission motto, sir," said Carrot cheerfully. "Morituri Nolumus Mori. Rincewind suggested it."
"I imagine he did," said Lord Vetinari, observing the wizard coldly. "And would you care to give us a colloquial translation, Mr Rincewind?"
"Er ... " Rincewind hesitated, but there really was no escape. "Er ... roughly speaking, it means, 'We who are about to die don't want to', sir. — Terry Pratchett

My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother. — Napoleon Bonaparte

And so we have this Oklahoma City, set upon a foundation so strong that it cannot be shaken. What shall you, the inheritors, do with this city? We hope that you shall make it more and more the city beautiful, more and more the city intellectual, more and more the city spiritual. For these three, beauty, mind, and spirit are the choicest diadems of life.

"Morituri vos salutamus!" Which, in this case, may be translated, "We, the Pioneers, salute you! — Angelo C. Scott

One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it. — Frantz Fanon