Pliny the Elder Quotes

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

Pliny the Elder

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• Life is a school of probability.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Life
  • School
  • Life Is A

• Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Life
  • Women
  • Peace

• Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Way

• The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Success
  • Benefits
  • U.S.

• In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Different
  • Different People

• I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

  

  Van Morrison
  • Never
  • Moon
  • Silver

• God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • God
  • Children
  • Care

• Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Political
  • Reality
  • Chance

• Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Cool
  • Conversation
  • Walk

• Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Life
  • Basic
  • Supplied

• Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • War
  • Bad
  • Evil

• There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.

  

  Isaac Goldberg
  • World
  • Stage
  • Which

• Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Want
  • Always
  • Body

• As long as a member state is a member state, there are no negotiations bilaterally on any trade agreement with third parties.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Long
  • Trade
  • Agreement

• I grew up Catholic, so the more non-denominational Christian experience was a new experience for me.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Christian

• Astronomers have been bewildered by the theory of an expanding universe, but there is no less expansion in the moral infinite of the universe of man. As far as the frontiers of science are pushed back, over the extended arc of these frontiers one will hear the poet's hounds on the chase.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Science
  • Man
  • Universe

• Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Fun
  • House
  • Black

• The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Sick
  • Memory

• I hate the idea of sequels. I think you should be able to do it in one book.

  

  Jane Gardam
  • Book
  • Hate

• We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Food
  • Wine
  • Healthy

• Yes," I said, "for the love of God!

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • God
  • Love

• It would be lovely to live in a culture where calmness was the aim.

  

  Matt Haig
  • Live
  • Culture

• In the good times of Dada, we detested polished works, the distracted air of spiritual struggle, the titans, and we rejected them with all out being.

  

  Jean Arp
  • Good
  • Spiritual
  • Air

• In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

  

  Pliny the Elder