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Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura che la diritta via era smarrita. In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood where the straight path was lost.
Dante (originally Durante) Alighieri— c.1320 Divina Commedia,'Inferno', canto1, l.1-3.
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita,mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,ché la diritta via era smarrita.
dante alighieri— When I had journeyed half of our life's way,I found myself within a shadowed forest,for I had lost the path that does not stray.
— Canto I, lines 1-3.
Io ho conquistato all'Italia un impero e Mussolini l'ha buttato via.
pietro badoglio— I have conquered an empire for Italy and Mussolini has thrown it away.
— Quoted in "Badoglio Risponde?" - Page 243 - by Vanna Vailati - Italy - 1958
Bullying behaviour can be communicated via text, mobile phones, internet, social networking sites, forums. But we can't limit it because these messages are then reinforced by television which glamorises yelling, swearing and vulgar behaviour as the way to walk the red carpet of acceptance.
louise burfitt-dons— Speech, Tackling Bullying Conference, London (2008-02-27)
Ma cos'è mai la storia, diceva spesso don Ferrante, senza la politica? Una guida che cammina, cammina, con nessuno dietro che impari la strada, e per conseguenza butta via i suoi passi; come la politica senza la storia è uno che cammina senza guida.
alessandro manzoni— But what is history, Don Ferrante would often say, without politics? A guide who walks on and on with no one following to learn the road, so that his every step is wasted; just as politics without history is like a man who walks along without a guide.
— Ch. 27; p. 374.
Confragosa in fastigium dignitatis via est.
seneca the younger— It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.Letter LXXXIV: On gathering ideas, line 13
If you find yourself despairing about the state of our great country, just think about how unlikely it would have seemed, back in the malaise days of 1979, that Jimmy Carter would one day return to Washington via Reagan Airport.
james taranto— From Best of the Web Today for October 1, 2010
My recollection is that most of the crap coming out of the trial via the media had Meyer condemned even before the trial was over.
christopher vokes— The Occupation, p. 205
Cantantes licet usque (minus via laedit) eamus .
virgil— Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.Book IX, line 64.
Tentanda via est, qua me quoque possim Tollere humo victorque virum volitare per ora.
virgil— New ways I must attempt, my grov'ling name
To raise aloft, and wing my flight to fame.Book III, lines 8–9 (translated by John Dryden).
Fit via vi.
virgil— Force wins her footing.Line 494 (translated by John Conington).
Hic locus est, partes ubi se via findit in ambas.
virgil— 'Tis here, in diff'rent paths, the way divides.Line 540.
For a generation of customers used to doing their buying research via search engine, a company’s brand is not what the company says it is, but what Google says it is.
chris anderson— Ch. 7, p. 99
[G]enes make enzymes, and enzymes control the rates of chemical processes. Genes do not make “novelty seeking” or any other complex and overt behavior. Predisposition via a long chain of complex chemical reactions, mediated through a more complex series of life's circumstances, does not equal identification or even causation.
stephen jay gould— "The Internal Brand of the Scarlet W", p. 282
The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century – every case of a poor nation that worked its way up to a more or less decent, or at least dramatically better, standard of living – has taken place via globalization, that is, by producing for the world market rather than trying for self-sufficiency.
paul krugman— The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century, ISBN 0393058506, pp. 368–9; as cited by Edward Fullbrook at logosjournal, Logos 4.1, winter 2005
After childhood, the senses specialize via the channels of dominant technologies and social weaponries.
Marshall McLuhan— Letter to The Listener October 1971, Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p. 443
Would a dating service on the net be ‘frowned upon’ . . .:;? I hope not. But even if it is, don’t let that stop you from notifying me via net mail if you start one.
richard m. stallman— New Yorker Article on SPAM, RMS quote from 1978 in regards to the first "spam" email sent by DEC salesman, Gary Thuerk
Object-oriented programming is a method of implementation in which programs are organized as cooperative collections of objects, each of which represents an instance of some class, and whose classes are all members of a hierarchy of classes united via inheritance relationships.
— Grady Booch (1991) Object-oriented design: With Applications. p. 35
Hospitals use a chargemaster to list the items involved in procedures performed at the hospital. A chargemaster contains the prices of all services, goods, and procedures for which a separate charge exists and is used to generate a patient's bill. Chargemaster information has traditionally been kept proprietary, but California via the Payers Bill of Rights has recently made its chargemaster available to the public.
— Chris Lyle and Monica Shultz (May 2009). "Health economic analysis: what needs to be considered when designing a clinical trial for medical technology?". Applied Clinical Trials 18 (5).
Nam sera nunquam est ad bonos mores via. Quem pœnitet peccasse, pæne est innocens.
— It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways:
He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.
— Seneca, Agamemnon. 242.
Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est.
publilius syrus— A pleasant companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
— Syrus, Maxims. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 124-25.
Cantantes licet usque (minus via laedit) eamus .
— Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
— Book IX, line 64.
Tentanda via est, qua me quoque possim Tollere humo victorque virum volitare per ora.
— New ways I must attempt, my groveling name
To raise aloft, and wing my flight to fame.
— Book III, lines 8–9 (translated by John Dryden).
Fit via vi.
— Force wins her footing.
— Line 494 (translated by John Conington).
Hic locus est, partes ubi se via findit in ambas.
— 'Tis here, in diff'rent paths, the way divides.
— Line 540.
Confragosa in fastigium dignitatis via est.
seneca the younger— It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
— Seneca the Younger, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium no. 84, sect. 13; translation from Moses Hadas Imperial Rome (New York: Time-Life, 1965) p. 109.
Confragosa in fastigium dignitatis via est.
— Letter LXXXIV: On gathering ideas, line 13
via ovumcraniumdifficilisest.Thewayoftheegghead is hard.
— 1954 Reply to charges that he was too intellectual. Lecture at Harvard,17 Mar.
via Veritas Vita - "The Way, The Truth, The Life"
— Silliman University Motto, appearing in the Bible: John 14:6
