295 Latin Quotes for You to Enjoy

Magna Carta has 63 clauses in abbreviated Latin. Two of them that are still on the statute book, numbers 39 and 40, could be said to have changed the way in which the free world has grown. Melvyn Bragg

Book World Free Changed Way Latin Magna Clause Could Free World Said Still Which Them Grown Two Numbers

During his last 18 months in office, Eisenhower flew to Asia, Europe, and Latin America and deployed his war hero's popularity to seek new friends for America while trying to improve relations with Moscow. By the time Ike left office, most Americans had forgotten their anger over losing the space race to the Soviets. Michael Beschloss

War Time Anger Losing Space Hero Relations Latin Months Latin America Seek Had Over New Moscow Most New Friends His Left Friends Improve Office America Trying American Soviets Forgotten Deployed Eisenhower While Race Asia Flew Europe Popularity Last By The Time

It's one thing to be writing in South or Latin America, where, except for Brazil, every country, however small and hard to find on a map, speaks Spanish, but quite another to be writing in, say, Hungary, a landlocked nation of 10 million people, with a language that very few people outside Hungary can read or speak. Michael Korda

People Writing Speak Language Hungary Country Nation Few Brazil Every Latin Latin America Say One Thing Find Small Except Outside Read Another However South Very America Few People Quite Where Spanish Hard Speaks Map Thing Million Million People

Albanians love topiary and fancy doors. They speak Albanian, an Indo-European language with traces of Greek and Latin - and the lek is their monetary denomination, which trades at one hundred to one on the dollar. Their food is excellent, a melange of Greek, Turkish, and Italian cuisine, all very fresh and legume-y. Michael Paterniti

I am not afraid to play Latin roles - that was a big part of my life. Michael Pena

Life My Life Big Latin Part Am Roles Big Part Afraid Play

We'll have, by the end of 2013, 30 local language editions of Forbes, many of those are pioneers in the markets they serve with Forbes.com. We launched recently in Thailand and Vietnam, and we're in China and Korea and all around Latin America. Michael Perlis

Language Local Latin Latin America Markets Those All-Around Forbes Around Korea End Pioneers Thailand America China Vietnam Many Serve Recently

I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours program at the University of Manchester in 1950, where the professors were E.R.H. Jones and M.G. Evans, and graduated in 1953, with the financial support of a Blackpool Education Committee Scholarship. Michael Smith

Education Financial Chemistry Latin Honours Enter Financial Support Able Scholarship Support First-Rate Cambridge Go However Were Did Committee Manchester Graduated Oxford Where Professors Proficient Program University

There's no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as a Latin band. We could never expect to do that. We just keep doing what we do, what we know how to do. We sound like ourselves. Mike Gordon

Song Country Band Way Latin Ourselves Could Never Never Expect Like Know Well How Sound Doing Expect Just Keep Play

I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?' Nancy Roman

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It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia. Natan Sharansky

Democracy Remember Thought Important Once Latin Latin America Some Russia Most Italy Cultures Germany America Japan Serious Compatible Thinkers

I remember really bonding with the first generation kids, the Chinese Canadian kids, and in high school bonding with the Latin kids and the East Indian kids. It was very interesting because it made me open to lots of musical sounds. Nelly Furtado

Me Generation Remember School Made First Musical Latin Kids East High Indian High School Open First Generation Because Sounds Lots Very Canadian Chinese Interesting Really Bonding

You can ask any Latin actor: inevitably, if they get a part meant for a white guy, producers will change the character's name to sound more Latin. Nicholas Gonzalez

Character You Change Will White Latin Guy More Part Name Sound Inevitably Get Any Ask Producers Meant Actor

Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround. Nick Turse

Good Hurdles Military Latin Latin America Out Response Remarkably Obstruction Doing America Trying Afghanistan Short Africa Whether Uniform Figure Old-Fashioned

I'm part Latin, so everything in the Latin culture is - there's a lot of hyperbole, and there's a lot of melodrama. Nina Tassler

Culture Everything Latin Melodrama Hyperbole Part Lot

It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself from U.S. domination. Noam Chomsky

World Sense Others Latin Latin America Independent Following More Pursue Freeing Makes Itself Domination Role America Japan

Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation. Oscar Isaac

You People Closed Doors Latin Constantly Someone Put Category Because Always Being Wanted Roots Avoid Many Thing

I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.' Oscar de la Renta

Me Walk Will Sorry Band Other Latin Say Complex Wearing Someone Through Colorful Shirt Stop Door Place

The only thing to be said for air travel is speed. It makes possible travel on a scale unimaginable before our present age. Between the ages of 20 and four-score I visited every country in Europe, all save two in Latin America, ditto in Africa, and most of Asia, not counting eight trips to Australia and 60 to the United States - all by air. Paul Johnson

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With 'Timbiriche', I toured Brazil and a lot of Latin America. Paulina Rubio

Brazil Latin Latin America Toured Lot America

My father was an interpreter for all the Latin American pilots at the naval base. He was very well educated. My mother was a hairdresser who sang every day. Pepe Serna

I wrote the text of the resignation. I cannot say with precision when, but at the most two weeks before. I wrote it in Latin because something so important you do in Latin. Furthermore, Latin is a language in which I know well how to write in a more appropriate way. Pope Benedict XVI

You Language Important Before Appropriate Way Latin Say Furthermore Something More Weeks Write Know Most Wrote Well Because How Text Precision Cannot Which Resignation Two Two Weeks

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