Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus Quotes

An ambuscade, if discovered and promptly surrounded, will return the intended mischief with interest.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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• I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Good
  • Love
  • Bad

• In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Interesting

• Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Character
  • Hip Hop

• Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.

  

  Ippy Aiona
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Fear
  • You
  • Scared

• Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Ghost
  • Ever
  • Personally

• No man fails who does his best.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Best
  • Fails

• We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Live
  • Without
  • Mediocrity

• You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Remember
  • Success
  • Yourself

• As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Mother
  • High
  • Girl

• It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.

  

  Hank Snow
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • May
  • Man
  • Woman

• It's very hard for me to find any sort of shame or blame in my life. I'm not made that way.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Blame

• It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • You
  • Reputation
  • Obvious

• I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • People
  • Media
  • Interviews

• Hinduism is like the Ganga,, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every provinvce, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

• We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Knowledge
  • Use
  • Therapy

• Man must act in such a way that the whole of his individuality lies in each moment.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Lies

• People come up to me and say somebody in their family has cancer, and we appreciate what you do, and we appreciate your fight, and don't give up, we love your attitude.

  

  Craig Sager
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the banalities about the ocean that one could realize, but if any one had told him then that these things were banalities, he would have gaped in wonder.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Wonder
  • Sea
  • Blue

• I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Children
  • Family
  • Love

• I abstain from any kind of release for six weeks before a fight, no self-pleasure, nothing. Even in my dreams, I'll be about to have sex with a beautiful girl and I'll say, 'Sorry darling, I'm fighting in a few weeks.' That's control, bro, when you're turning down a hot chick in your subconscious.

  

  David Haye
  • Girl
  • Control
  • Dreams

• 'What dya mean theres no fackin chips, I come ere on a plane, you cunt! I've got children ere, what am I spose to do with this fackin tomato fiasco.'

  

  Dylan Moran
  • Children

• An ambuscade, if discovered and promptly surrounded, will return the intended mischief with interest.

  

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