Lactantius Quotes

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

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• I grew up in a very large, poor family.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Poor

• Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Time
  • Day
  • Challenge

• If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Man
  • Learning
  • Horse

• I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Bad
  • Know
  • Liar

• Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • Money
  • You
  • Responsibility

• In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Know
  • Capitalism
  • Last

• I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Nature
  • Sometimes
  • Politics

• When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Team
  • Breakfast
  • Habits

• Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Strong
  • Law
  • Fairness

• The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Remember

• Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Why
  • War
  • Cold

• But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • True
  • Attention
  • Young

• Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Person
  • Mystery
  • Destination

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Dreams

• When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Focus
  • Goals
  • Economy

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• The only way we are going to get diversity is if the demographics of the decision-makers change... The odd-token bone thrown is not going to do it. Don't pat yourself on the back because you made that black drama; that's not diversity. It's got to be baked into the foundation of where the ideas flow from.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Black
  • Decision
  • Drama

• Men have made the world. And they've made a brilliant job of it. I love men. You know, men, you built Paris and you invented The Beatles, and, you know, and you've taught dogs to say 'sausages.' You know, I love your world. Thank you for it.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • World
  • Love
  • Job

• If you look at what we did with 'Winter Soldier' with the Cap character in terms of bringing him into the modern world, trying to ground the movie tonally into something that was a step toward real-world, at least to the degree you can do that in a superhero movie, that's still the tonal universe that we're playing in 'Civil War.'

  

  Joe Russo
  • World
  • Real
  • Trying

• Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ... So long as one sees killing as wrong there is no need to waste time with the deterrent argument, since it would be nonsense to try to prevent a theoretical evil in the future by perpetrating an actual one in the present.

  

  Auberon Waugh
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• NBA people want to see versatility, ... That was one of the things I talked about with coach, just stepping out toward the perimeter more. Rebounding is a great skill, and not too many people realize how hard it is to pull down 10-plus per game for your career -- so that can't go away. The main thing for me is stepping out more, while still taking advantage of my rebounding ability.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • People
  • NBA
  • Versatility

• The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

  

  Lactantius
  • True
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