Publilius Syrus Quotes

Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.

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• The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Creation
  • Forests
  • Acorn

• I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Think
  • Law

• I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Food
  • Rest
  • Football

• To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Truth
  • Speak
  • Easy

• I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • School
  • War
  • High

• I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• 'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Expectations
  • Become

• My features are completely ethnic.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Features
  • Ethnic

• Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Giving
  • Yourself
  • Loss

• As a designer, when someone wears my clothes, the biggest compliment I can receive is that the woman looks amazing because my designs have flattered her, not taken over her. I take that philosophy to heart myself each morning when I am getting ready for the day.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Heart
  • Amazing
  • Day

• It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Art
  • Amazing
  • Imagination

• Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Think
  • Daughter
  • Morals

• Used games allow more people, specifically younger people, to become game fans because of the lower price point.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Game
  • Games

• Heroes in drama are people who try hard to reach a virtuous ideal. And whether they succeed or fail really doesn't matter - it's the trying that counts.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Trying
  • Drama

• To apply oneself to great inventions, starting from the smallest beginnings, is no task for ordinary minds; to divine that wonderful arts lie hid behind trivial and childish things is a conception for superhuman talents.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Great

• In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Responsibility
  • Competition

• Normally, when one passes someone on the street who is in pain, one either tries to help him, or one simply looks the other way. With a photo there's no human decision; you're not there; you can't turn away; you simply gape. It's a form of voyeurism.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Help
  • Pain
  • Decision

• If you want to see useful Perl examples, we can certainly arrange to have comp.lang.misc flooded with them, but I don't think that would help the advance of civilization.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Help

• Now, a fancy ball is bad enough in London, where milliners are many, and where theatres have costumes that may be borrowed or copied ; but in the country, where people are left to their own devices-truly to them may be applied the old poet's account of murderers, 'their fancies are all frightful.'

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • People
  • Country
  • May

• I am someone who isn't always perfect.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Perfect

• Time trialing is one of those things that you've got to train for... Being a new rider, it's still really hard for me to know what's the most efficient gear for me to be in. The road race is probably more exciting, in my opinion, because it's a lot faster pace, and people are constantly attacking.

  

  Oksana Masters
  • People
  • Time
  • Opinion

• I get income, but I don't have a big swath of money to invest in things.

  

  Agnes Gund
  • Money

• My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.

  

  Meghan O'Rourke
  • Women

• Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.

  

  Publilius Syrus