Quintilian Quotes
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.Quintilian
Quotes to Explore
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
Owen Arthur -
There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
Yoko Ono -
I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
Nathan Gamble -
It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
P. J. Harvey -
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
Carl von Clausewitz -
When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
Dalton McGuinty -
What would you do in order to marry Sophia Loren? I think anyone would become French to marry Sophia Loren. Love was more important than nationality. The cultural heritage of that country and my parents is so interlaced that it really doesn't matter that a piece of paper tells them they're French.
Edoardo Ponti -
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
Gary Bauer
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys -
Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
Victor LaValle -
After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
Yakov Smirnoff -
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold MacMillan -
I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
Ted Cruz -
History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. They have all opened my mind and helped me with my craft.
Adam Hicks -
My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that other people wouldn't have been able to do. But then again, we've also been able to live a normal life as well.
Zara Phillips -
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Khalil Gibran -
"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
George Eliot -
As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
Rachel Carson -
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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