Publilius Syrus Quotes

Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

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• White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Father

• There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Women
  • Two
  • Only

• It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Stupid
  • Said
  • Islam

• I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.

  

  Maluma
  • Relationship
  • Gay

• I have done Botox, and I loved it.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Done
  • Loved
  • Botox

• As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Great
  • Study
  • Struggle

• It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Home
  • Gun
  • Protection

• I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Always
  • Tell

• It's great living with your best friends.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Best

• The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • My Life

• They don't like anyone who isn't Korean, and they don't like each other all that much, either. They're hardheaded, hard-drinking, tough little bastards, 'the Irish of Asia'.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Drinking
  • Irish

• Throughout the Middle Ages the sway of the Church over the moral and spiritual life of the people, her power to inspire and direct their enthusiasms and energies, her chance for molding their conceptions of life, were amazing and unparalleled by any other force.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • People
  • Life
  • Power

• Nichts ist höher schätzen als der Werth des Tages.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• We won’t be moving people, we will be moving the borders. It’s not a transfer.

  

  Avigdor Lieberman
  • People
  • Moving

• The title wise is, for the most part, falsely applied. How can one be a wise man, if he does not know any better how to live than other men? - if he is only more cunning and intellectually subtle?

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Men
  • Live
  • Wise

• It has been said that America is a country for the poor, not for the rich. There would be more correctness in saying it is the country for both, where the latter have a relish for free government; but, proportionally, more for the former than for the latter.

  

  James Madison
  • Country
  • America
  • Free

• I think one of the traps of theater - what makes it so amazing is that it's not able to be mass-produced, but it also makes it hard to get work seen by people because if you're a creator, you do a cabaret or something, and maybe 100 people will see it and then it ends the night that you close it.

  

  Andrew Keenan-Bolger
  • People
  • Work
  • Night

• I told my dentist I want a tooth to match the others. He gave my one with four cavities.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Dentist
  • Tooth
  • Cavities

• Don't cry to quit. Cry to keep going!

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Quit
  • Not Cry

• God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Moment
  • Loving
  • God Is

• All I'm saying is that, you know, whether we're worth a billion, whether we're worth a million, whether we're worth $1,000, it's what's in your heart. You know, $100 a month from somebody or $50 a year for people who may be in a less economic bracket, that's as important to the Lord.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Sr.
  • People
  • Important
  • Heart

• Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

  

  Publilius Syrus