Boethius Quotes

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

Boethius

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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

• 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

• I can cook a little bit. I can cook a few Spanish dishes. But, in movies, it looks like I cook much better than I cook.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Spanish

• It's up to you to define your own brand of leadership and your own version of success.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Up
  • Success
  • Leadership

• The country - or the government - is headed for bankruptcy. So we're going to be continuing to speak out against corporate welfare as something that hurts everybody except those direct beneficiaries.

  

  Charles Koch
  • Country

• What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can't understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort.

  

  Lawrence Eagleburger
  • Why
  • Effort

• Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.

  

  Francis Parkman
  • Men
  • Art
  • Society

• They wanna know why, I'm so fly, a girl asked me for a ring and I put one around her whole eye I'm looking nothing like ya poppa, I wouldn't give a chick ten cents, to put cheese on a whopper.

  

  Big L
  • Girl
  • Giving
  • Knows

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

  

  Boethius