Pliny the Elder Quotes
Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill,-the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows,-when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work.Pliny the Elder
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips -
In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
Park Chan-wook -
When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
Valerie Plame -
Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
Pat Riley -
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Samuel Butler
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
Finn Jones -
I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
Olivia Munn -
Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
C. S. Forester -
There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
Samantha Power -
If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
Natalie Goldberg -
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
Finley Peter Dunne
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
La'Porsha Renae -
Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
Nathan Fillion -
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
B. C. Forbes -
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
Wendell Berry -
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I don't know how anyone could stop working.
Vicki Lawrence
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Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.
Benjamin Rush -
And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us.
Jami Gertz -
The distortion of the truth bothers me.
Michael Jackson -
What's the word to describe the thing that all of us are trying to do, which is to found or work for or invest in a company that is the winner of all winners?
Aileen Lee -
Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there.
Candace Bushnell -
Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill,-the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows,-when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work.
Pliny the Elder