Publilius Syrus Quotes

Don't turn back when you are just at the goal.

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• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.

  

  Sam Kean
  • United States
  • Europe

• Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Beautiful
  • Me
  • Crowded

• I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Good
  • Peace
  • Wish

• Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • People
  • Situation
  • Stronger

• At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Night
  • Space
  • Sea

• Well, I've learned a lot from Bill Belichick. I've said time and time again, before I got to New England, I thought I knew a lot about football. But I think he taught me a lot from A to Z. I still carry it to this day.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Time
  • Day
  • Football

• I was seven years old. What do you know when you’re seven years old? All my life, or so I thought, we’d been in the city of Alexandria, in the Street of the Carpenters, with the other Galileans, and sooner or later we were going home.

  

  Anne Rice
  • Life
  • Home
  • City

• Chorus leader: Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, / Protracted with sorrow from day to day, / Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, / Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay! (heavily rewritten tr. Frere 1839, p. 38)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Life
  • Children

• We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.

  

  Lillian Hellman
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• It's a dream come true to have someone else portray me. Because I've been living this life for a long time, and I'm over myself.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Corruption in state-owned enterprises and other public institutions has undermined our government's programs to address poverty and unemployment.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Poverty

• Google is arguably one of the greatest inventions. The search engine is one of the greatest inventions in human history.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • History
  • Search

• There are estimated to be fewer that 50 prodigious savants worldwide. If we were brought together, it would be disappointing in the sense of us having different abilities. One thing that would make me feel united with them would be the sense of us having grown up in isolation.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Up
  • Different
  • Together

• You always want to aim high.

  

  James Bobin
  • High

• The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Suffering

• I need to have an outlet, and so I go and make up characters and act and sing and dance like a crazy monkey clown.

  

  Lauren Ambrose
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Dance

• A house full of new furniture doesn't mean a whole lot.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • House

• That's stupid. You couldn't pay me to go. I'm not oversimplifying it. That's what's going on. I don't think it would be any fun without the drugs. It's a drug party.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Drug

• People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I.

  

  Ricky Williams
  • People
  • Eating
  • Hungry

• My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Bad
  • Son
  • Boy

• I love Twitter, and my little corner of it is heavily weighted in favour of women, many of them writers: Caitlin Moran, India Knight, Lauren Laverne, Grace Dent, Deborah Orr, Marina Hyde, Suzanne Moore. I look at that list of names and think, 'Here comes the fun - fun that knows its way around a dictionary.'

  

  John Niven
  • Women
  • Fun

• Don't turn back when you are just at the goal.

  

  Publilius Syrus