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

• I still get excited about it. I miss playing ball.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Playing
  • Excited
  • Still

• 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

• You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Guy
  • Mean
  • Ideas

• Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but the beam has not yet played beyond you.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Life
  • Past
  • Present

• I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.

  

  Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
  • People
  • Culture

• What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? Does Love make her voice heard through a committee, does Love employ an almoner to convey her message to her neighbor? ... The real Love knows her neighbor face to face, and laughs with him and weeps with him, and eats and drinks with him, so that at last, when his black day dawns, she may share with him, not what she can spare, but all that she has.

  

  Stella Benson
  • Black
  • Secret
  • Charity

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

  

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