Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus Quotes

Nulla consilia meliora sunt nisi illa, quae ignorauerit aduersarius, antequam facias.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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• I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Obsessed

• Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.

  

  Xavi
  • World
  • Music
  • Movie

• I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Never
  • Mission
  • Pilot

• When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I do have a very vivid image of an ill woman with giant eyes who wants to write about the sun exploding.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Eyes
  • Woman
  • Sun

• In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Good
  • Together
  • Pretty

• How high can bitcoin go? The real question is how low can the dollar go?

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Real
  • High
  • Question

• You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Think
  • Broken
  • Sheep

• I'm lucky that I do something I love, and I am proud, as I think it's a positive message to give to young women: if you want to have a career and be married with children, then you can. It's full-on, but it's doable.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Women
  • Children
  • Career

• 'Oh, everybody exploits somebody,' says Howard, 'in this social order it's part of the human lot.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury

• 'You’ve behaved very highhandedly, Captain Mallory. Is that the custom out here?''The custom is, sir, that those who know a situation handle it and those who don’t watch and learn, or get out of the way.'

  

  C. J. Cherryh

• That's the thing about people who think they hate computers … What they really hate are lousy programmers.

  

  Larry Niven
  • People
  • Hate

• No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Fear
  • Greatness

• Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.

  

  Bob Marley

• I didn't know it was such a guy's job. It's like playing football in high heels and lipstick; no wonder it smears.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Job
  • High
  • Guy

• Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.

  

  Clare Short

• London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Law

• Child Protection Services can get all up in your business if you have kids. Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Up
  • Business
  • Kids

• I am always so envious of people who do whatever they want.

  

  Claire Foy
  • People

• I have talked to stunt drivers all my life, 32 years of talking to stunt drivers. There's a craziness to them.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • Life

• In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Government
  • Direction
  • Tool

• On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

  

  Joe Biden
  • World
  • Guy

• Everyone talks about how we're on our phones all the time, but the fact remains that when I'm away on a film set for two months, I can Skype my family. I remember the phone calls my parents had to make when my dad was away for a while when I was younger - that once-a-week expensive phone call! The time pressure on talking to your father!

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
  • Time
  • Family
  • Remember

• Nulla consilia meliora sunt nisi illa, quae ignorauerit aduersarius, antequam facias.

  

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