Boethius Quotes

Adeo nihil est miserum nisi cum putes, contraque beata sors omnis est aequanimitate tolerantis.

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• I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Streets

• I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Intelligence
  • Reform
  • Context

• I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Good
  • Long
  • Women

• Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Always
  • Through
  • Likes

• Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• I'm a model, but I love to eat.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Love
  • Model
  • Eat

• My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Doing
  • Worst
  • Duty

• A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Soul
  • Prayer
  • Either

• Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Good
  • Education

• Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Friends

• In fact, we have a choice of freedom of heart to follow God.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Heart
  • Freedom

• In the last 'Batman' movie, they told me that I couldn't get an audition for a small role they were casting because they weren't 'going urban.' It was like, 'What does that have to do with anything?'

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Movie
  • Small
  • Me

• You have to teach children about money intentionally - create teachable moments.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Children
  • Money
  • Moments

• If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • Literature

• Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting.

  

  Fred Savage
  • Interesting

• I don't like the negative of reality tv - the 'you're no good, so you have to leave, I choose you, but I thought you really loved me.' It's all about how bad people are and I just hate that. I like Pimp my Ride where someone is helping somebody.

  

  Bob Saget
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts that support the work. Today, our understanding of an artist is closer to a philosopher than to a craftsman.

  

  Jeffrey Deitch
  • Work
  • Today
  • Support

• The Greeks first identified the Amazons ethnographically, as a nation of men and women distinguished by something outstanding in their gender relations. Later, any ambivalence or anxiety that knowledge of this alternative gender-neutral culture evoked among Greeks was played out in their mythic narratives about martial women.

  

  Adrienne Mayor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Culture

• Before playing Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet. I couldn't really come up with a short way to sum up this song, but I was watching the movie 'Adaptation' the other day and this sort of sums it up in my head. You are not who loves you. You are who you love. Always remember that.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Song

• Every man, noble and simple alike, should hold his land as a pledge of god behaviour. His duties, to King, lord, and neighbour, should be settled once and for all; and, if he failed in them, he should be turned out of his home and left to starve. It was a drastic scheme; but a conqueror holding a conquered country by the force of the sword cannot afford to be squeamish.

  

  Edward Jenks
  • King
  • Force
  • Failed

• It's always great to perform at home in the good ol' U.S.A.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Home

• Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.

  

  Steven Pressfield
  • World
  • Contribution
  • Cheat

• Adeo nihil est miserum nisi cum putes, contraque beata sors omnis est aequanimitate tolerantis.

  

  Boethius