Plautus Quotes

Si sapias, sapias : habeus quod di dant boni.

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• The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Important
  • Women
  • Money

• I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.

  

  B. B. King
  • Want
  • Wonder
  • Talent

• The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • God
  • Job

• I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Group
  • Illness
  • Improve

• I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Life
  • Think
  • Successful

• The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Always
  • Actions
  • Brainy

• As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GOP for my outspoken criticism of their extremist attacks on public education and voting rights, to name just two examples.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • True
  • Education
  • Criticism

• Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Story
  • Courtesy

• I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Technology

• My whole family is really close. I'm lucky for that.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • Family
  • Lucky
  • Close

• When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Work
  • Song
  • Write

• I don't have secrets in my life. Everything is out there.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Secrets

• If people just want to be famous, that's just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you're doing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Work
  • Famous

• I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Long
  • Children

• Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Hope
  • Mercy

• Dennis Martinez's perfect game at Dodger Stadium, July 28, 1991, based off of video on mlb.com

  

  Vin Scully
  • Game
  • Perfect

• There's no such thing, like a female with good looks who cooks and cleans.

  

  Eminem
  • Good

• Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal.

  

  Bob Costas
  • Good
  • History
  • Humorous

• A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Judgment
  • Conscience
  • Erroneous

• One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don’t know they know... Once the breakthrough is made, there is a permanent expansion of awareness. But there is always a reaction of rage, of outrage, at the first breakthrough... So the artist, then, expands awareness. And once the breakthrough is made, this becomes part of the general awareness.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • People
  • Important
  • Art

• Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human.

  

  Brian Jacques
  • Kids
  • Animal

• If one denies that, when the meaning is true, then the meant is what is so, one rejects propositional truth. If the rejection is universal, then it is the self-destructive proposition that there are no true propositions. If the rejection is limited to the dogmas, then it is just a roundabout way of saying that all the dogmas are false.

  

  Bernard Lonergan
  • Truth
  • Rejection
  • False

• Si sapias, sapias : habeus quod di dant boni.

  

  Plautus