Persius Quotes

He conquers who endures.

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• I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Very
  • Sensitive

• If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Done
  • California
  • Anywhere

• If you think about it, all of us have one or more teachers who were instrumental.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Think
  • You
  • Teachers

• Birth was the death of him.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Death
  • Birth
  • Him

• It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Good
  • Career
  • Plan

• The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.

  

  OMI
  • Song
  • Quality
  • Meaningful

• I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Friends
  • Think
  • Pretty

• I want people to be able to give their voice.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • Want
  • Voice

• In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Up
  • Help
  • Will

• All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?

  

  Garth Stein
  • Game
  • Interesting
  • Speak

• The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Great
  • American
  • Only

• People usually spend the first two months playing themselves up, not really being themselves. You waste those two months - and then they tell you, 'You're not who I was dating the first month!'

  

  Manny Montana
  • People
  • Up
  • Dating

• I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Believe
  • Stories

• The Church was the preserver of the remnants of intellectual culture, the sole schoolmistress of the raw peoples. Her clergy long had almost a monopoly of education, and were the secretaries of the nobles, the chancellors and prime ministers of kings.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Long
  • Culture
  • Education

• Live, for I love you!

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Live

• No amount of money today could possibly give me the thrill that first $400 check gave me. My first story was entitled, 'Dejah Thoris, Princess of Mars.' Metcalf changed it to 'Under the Moons of Mars.' It was later published in book form as A Princess of Mars.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Money
  • Book
  • Today

• From a prestige standpoint, the U.S. needs to host Formula 1. And I think Formula 1, they know they need the U.S. as well. So many companies that are global are based in the United States support Formula 1.

  

  Mario Andretti
  • Support

• It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Bad
  • Feeling

• Richard resumed reading the T’Rain Gazette, a daily newspaper (electronic format, of course)... which summarized what had been going on all over T’Rain during the preceding twenty-four hours: Notable achievements, wars, duels, sackings, mortality statistics, plagues, famines...untoward spikes in commodity prices.

  

  Neal Stephenson
  • Reading
  • Daily

• I guess, a lot of people think is a long time between albums. It was needed for me. I went through a lot to get the album ["Wild Things"] finished. I actually went through a lot to even get the album started.

  

  Ladyhawke
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Ruining is a gift .. it's the way of changing.

  

  Erin Gruwell
  • Gift
  • Changing
  • Ruining

• He conquers who endures.

  

  Persius