Publilius Syrus Quotes

Malum est consilium, quod mutari non potest.

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• The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Goal
  • Advice

• I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Character
  • Mercy
  • Head

• Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

  

  Lactantius
  • Age
  • Memory
  • Adversity

• It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Act
  • Authority
  • Vote

• I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Tennis
  • Lucky
  • Very

• In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Run

• Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Good
  • High
  • Engineering

• I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Family

• I have an open door to meet with my constituents and that I work hard to respond to their needs, and I'm proud of the constituent service that we provide.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Work
  • Proud
  • Service

• Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Life
  • Different
  • Business

• We've been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can't do - about what is impossible.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Time
  • Impossible
  • Little

• He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Game
  • Morning
  • Loves

• What song have you played 10,000 times? It's probably not something basic. It's probably a song that validates your experience on Earth.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Experience
  • Song
  • Earth

• Bolivar cannot carry double.

  

  O. Henry
  • Cannot
  • Carry
  • Double

• The world’s vast and strange, Hara, but no vaster and no stranger than our minds are. Think of that sometimes.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World

• What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Great
  • Trying
  • History

• Minister-no-more at yanisvaroufakis.eu, 2015/07/06; cited in: I shall wear the creditors’ loathing with pride, in: theguardian.com, 6 July 2015.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Pride

• Then let not what I cannot haveMy cheer of mind destroy.Whilst thus I sing, I am a king,Although a poor blind boy!

  

  Colley Cibber
  • Mind
  • Boy
  • King

• We show that some known classical results have particularly simple derivations within the Ashtekar formalism. These include Witten's positive energy theorem...

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Energy
  • Simple
  • Positive

• Aye, it is hard when those we love leave the world. No denying it.

  

  David Gemmell
  • World

• In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges.

  

  James E. Faust
  • May

• I grew up in a town of 30,000 people, and 'Queer Eye' was a beacon of light.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • People
  • Up
  • Light

• In that wide struggle which we call Progress, evil is always the aggressor and the vanquished, and it is right that this should be so, for without its onslaughts and depredations humanity might fall to a fat slumber upon its cornsacks and die snoring.

  

  James Stephens
  • Die
  • Fall
  • Evil

• Malum est consilium, quod mutari non potest.

  

  Publilius Syrus