Quintilian Quotes

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

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• Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Surgery
  • Plastic Surgery

• I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Life
  • Important
  • Challenge

• Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Problem

• I breathe martial arts every day of my life.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • Way
  • Successful
  • Honest

• I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Art
  • Search

• My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • Life
  • Good
  • Believe

• I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Parents

• As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Teenager

• Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Media
  • Own
  • Mainstream Media

• Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Thinking
  • Community
  • Powerful

• I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Pretty
  • Person
  • Feel

• I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Like

• The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Rock
  • Better

• This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Happy

• The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Identity
  • Own
  • Weakness

• I love New York. Love it.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
  • New
  • New York

• Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Light
  • Day

• Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Most
  • Failed
  • Some

• As a girl, I love the joy, luxury, and effortlessness of experiencing a pedicure on the go.

  Jacqueline Fernandez
  • Girl
  • Joy

• The dog has an enviable mind; it remembers the nice things in life and quickly blots out the nasty.

  

  Barbara Woodhouse
  • Mind
  • Dog
  • Remembers

• I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

  

  Georg Baselitz
  • Father
  • Painting

• When I first started out, I was considered a crackpot, he said. The doctors used to say, 'Don't go to that Jack LaLanne, you'll get hemorrhoids, you won't get an erection, you women will look like men, you athletes will get muscle-bound - this is what I had to go through.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Men
  • Women

• Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

  

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