Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus Quotes

Amplius iuuat uirtus quam multitudo.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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• I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Work
  • Money
  • Looking

• I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Work
  • Force
  • Directors

• If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Unique
  • Gender
  • Spectrum

• A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Bad
  • Man
  • Poet

• Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Time
  • Dog
  • Pet

• You're always going to have terrorism.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • You
  • Always
  • Terrorism

• Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Important
  • Mind

• When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Constitution
  • Him
  • Sexuality

• That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Religion

• My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Family
  • Funny
  • Car

• We see an entire planet which has many limitations.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • See
  • Planet
  • Limitations

• A DJ can't just play one song. It's about playing a set, or how you connect songs in those two hours, and where you place them.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Song
  • You
  • DJ

• I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Friends

• The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • You
  • Know
  • More

• I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Good
  • School

• Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • You
  • Search
  • Questions

• Pleasant, summer, and slow long day; Also pleasant to pass out of chastisement Pleasant, the blossoms on the tops of the pear-trees; Also pleasant, friendship with the Creator.

  

  Taliesin
  • Long
  • Summer
  • Friendship

• When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare.

  

  Aubrey Beardsley
  • Study
  • Literature

• As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven't been told.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • American

• It's lifestyle music. It's not like some secretary who likes some pop song, but can't name who the band is; whereas a heavy metal fan is into every aspect of it. We'll see if rap holds up to that. Run-DMC seemed to be the Led Zeppelin of rap.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Up
  • Music
  • Song

• In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Art
  • Simple
  • Painting

• Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.

  

  Lord Byron
  • World
  • Die
  • Mankind

• We are soldiers, Highness. We understand tomorrow could be the last day. Or the day after. A soldier has so little control over the time or manner of his ending. He can always choose how he faces it.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Control
  • Choose
  • Soldier

• Amplius iuuat uirtus quam multitudo.

  

  Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus