Famous Quotes & Sayings

Verba Quotes & Sayings

Enjoy reading and share 19 famous quotes about Verba with everyone.

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Pinterest Share on Linkedin

Top Verba Quotes

Verba Quotes By Tacitus

A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
[Lat., Vulgus ignavum et nihil ultra verba ausurum.] — Tacitus

Verba Quotes By Charles Robert Maturin

Alas! it is too true that our souls always contract themselves on the approach of a blessing, and seem as if their powers, exhausted in the effort to obtain it, had no longer energy to embrace the object. — Charles Robert Maturin

Verba Quotes By Louisa May Alcott

Take some books and read; that's an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort. — Louisa May Alcott

Verba Quotes By Pittacus Lore

I like the idea of making some friends, of going to the same school for more than a few months, of maybe actually having a life. I started to do it in Florida. It was sort of great, and for the first time since we've been on Earth, I almost feel normal. I want to find somewhere and stay somewhere. — Pittacus Lore

Verba Quotes By George Soros

I see tremendous imbalance in the world. A very uneven playing field, which has gotten tilted very badly. I consider it unstable. At the same time, I don't exactly see what is going to reverse it. — George Soros

Verba Quotes By Zen Cho

The British are a peculiar race. My grandfather was transported to Malaya because they needed tin, and yet I've never once met a Briton to whom the thought had occurred that perhaps I spoke English because I am from one of their colonies. It is as if I were a piece of chess in a game played by people who never look down at their fingers. — Zen Cho

Verba Quotes By Miranda Davis

Res, non verba,' actions not words. — Miranda Davis

Verba Quotes By Pope Francis

Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from the hungry! — Pope Francis

Verba Quotes By Umberto Eco

Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow. — Umberto Eco

Verba Quotes By Pierce Brosnan

When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself. — Pierce Brosnan

Verba Quotes By Kane

He's a freak. Just like me. Just like all those Kane-a-nites out there! And you know what, Freaks are cool! — Kane

Verba Quotes By Ovid

Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble.
[Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes),
Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!] — Ovid

Verba Quotes By James Gleick

Nullius in verba was the Royal Society's motto. Don't take anyone's word for it. — James Gleick

Verba Quotes By Ovid

Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina — Ovid

Verba Quotes By Steve Martin

My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth speaking the line, the body delivering the gesture, while the mind looks back, observing, analyzing, judging, worrying, and then deciding when and what to say next. Enjoyment while performing was rare - enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford. — Steve Martin

Verba Quotes By Aulus Persius Flaccus

You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class).
[Lat., Verba togae sequeris.] — Aulus Persius Flaccus

Verba Quotes By Aulus Persius Flaccus

Confined to common life thy numbers flow,
And neither soar too high nor sink too low;
There strength and ease in graceful union meet,
Though polished, subtle, and though poignant, sweet;
Yet powerful to abash the from of crime
And crimson error's cheek with sportive rhyme.
[Lat., Verba togae sequeris, junctura callidus acri,
Ore teres modico, pallentes radere mores
Doctus, et ingenuo culpam defigere ludo.] — Aulus Persius Flaccus

Verba Quotes By Kim Stanley Robinson

Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic . — Kim Stanley Robinson

Verba Quotes By Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

I think perhaps Pakistan can take the lead. Perhaps Turkey can as well, being part of Europe. But someone has to start talking about why the Muslim world has become a boiling pot and look beyond these cartoons to what the ideological reasons are for this divide. — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy