Scribo Latin Quotes & Sayings

Darlin', everyone has scars. — Marguerite Ashton

Our country's cheerleaders are wedded to the notion of American exceptionalism. But when it comes to the machinations of power, we are all too similar to other societies and ones that have come before us. There is an implacable brutality to power that is familiar throughout the world and throughout history. — David Talbot

Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other. — Epicurus

On our knees we are the most powerful force on earth — Billy Graham

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. — Pablo Picasso

I am not myself; I am the potential of myself. — Anna Deavere Smith

He listens well who takes notes. — Dante Alighieri

There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due. — Pierre Bayle

Oh boo hoo, everyone's life was hard, and if you'd survived the hardship, why write about it? Survival itself was enough. — Meg Wolitzer

My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I'm glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person. — Ellie Goulding

Trains are relentless things, aren't they, Monsieur Poirot? People are murdered and die, but they go on just the same. I am talking nonsense, but you know what I mean."
"Yes, yes, I know. Life is like a train, Mademoiselle. It goes on. And it is a good thing that that is so."
"Why?"
"Because the train gets to its journey's end at last, and there is a proverb about that in your language, Mademoiselle."
"'Journey's end in lovers meeting.'" Lenox laughed. "That is not going to be true for me."
"Yes
yes, it is true. You are young, younger than you yourself know. Trust the train, Mademoiselle, for it is le bon Dieu who drives it."
The whistle of the engine came again.
"Trust the train, Mademoiselle," murmured Poirot again. "And trust Hercule Poirot. He knows. — Agatha Christie

The social function of narrative is not limited to 'primitive' people sitting around the fire telling each other where Fire came from and why they're sitting around it. — Ursula K. Le Guin

PR guys get paid to make people believe that a pile of shit is an investment in soil fertility. Professional liars."
"Ah!"
Manannan's expression lit with comprehension. "They are politicians? — Kevin Hearne

You could have thrown her into the fire, that's what you could have done. Then it would save me the task of killing her myself! -Ben Deverill — Alexandra May

Each of us has always hoped that a stranger would come who would scatter holy water on the image of the other and lay it for ever — Rebecca West

No one has been buried at Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge, England, for many years, and so the place has a shady, overgrown magic about it. — Sophie Hannah