Quintilian Quotes

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

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• Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Small
  • Light
  • Cooking

• I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Want
  • Myself

• I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Road
  • Husband

• I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Afraid

• I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Think
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• I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Life
  • Love
  • Love Life

• Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Power
  • Want
  • Information

• I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Thought
  • Weird
  • Doing

• Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Black
  • Best
  • Black-and-white

• In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Trouble
  • Your
  • Troubled

• I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Time
  • Love
  • Education

• What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Power
  • History
  • Past

• I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Rock
  • Wrestling
  • Favorite

• There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • God
  • Job
  • America

• Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.

  

  Francesca da Rimini
  • Love
  • Journey
  • Dress

• You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Afraid

• If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • Love
  • Movies

• We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Life
  • Running
  • Old

• TPP is dead anyway, and similar deals in the eurozone are going nowhere.

  

  Gary Shilling
  • Deals
  • Eurozone

• Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.

  

  Aristotle
  • Happy
  • Idea
  • Persons

• Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Me
  • Present
  • Gift

• The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

  

  Quintilian
  • Idea
  • Right
  • Misery