Nobis Latin Quotes & Sayings

I'm not in for killing another man, defending my holy land, as if there's a god who would understand. — Matthew Sweet

Political emancipation is a reduction of man, on the one hand to a member of civil society, an independent and egoistic individual, and on the other hand, to a citizen, a moral person.
Human emancipation will only be complete when the real, individual man has absorbed into himself the abstract citizen; when as an individual man, in his everyday life, in his work, and in his relationships, he has become a species-being; and when he has recognized and organized his own powers (forces propres) as social powers so that he no longer separates this social power from himself as political power. — Karl Marx

It was strange. When I had read the newspaper, I had been enraged by the revisionist educational system that had been poisoning our youth for so many years. But now that I actually had to criticize the teachers who taught us every day, I could not find anything really bad to say about any of them. — Ji-li Jiang

God created us to rule, to lead and use all His riches to establish His order — Sunday Adelaja

For most of my career I've been very lucky to have avoided major injuries. — Mark Viduka

The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers
of persistence, concentration, and insight
to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply. — Susan Cain

When we are angry we are blind to reality. Anger may bring us a temporary burst of energy, but that energy is blind and it blocks the part of our brain that distinguishes right from wrong. To deal with our problems, we need to be practical and realistic. If we are to be realistic, we need to use our human intelligence properly, which means we need a calm mind. — Dalai Lama

What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow. — Martin Luther

No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press. — Amartya Sen

Her mind was like a wound exposed to dry in the air. — Virginia Woolf

Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent — Publilius Syrus

Non nobis solum nati sumus.
(Not for ourselves alone are we born.) — Marcus Tullius Cicero

They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours. — Jack Kerouac

One instant is eternity; / eternity is the now. / When you see through this one instant, / you see through the one who sees. — Wumen Huikai

There is no doubt that we are a very cruel people,' Winston Churchill wrote home from the front. 'Severity always,' went the British motto, 'justice when possible. — Wade Davis