Plautus Quotes

'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

Plautus

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• Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Want
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  • Play

• I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Game
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• I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Life
  • Live
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• I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street.

  

  Ice T
  • Up
  • House
  • Parents

• I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • People
  • Think
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• The main cause of Europe's deep fall - the losses of inclusion, job satisfaction and wage growth - is the devastating slowdown of productivity that began in the late 1990s and struck large swaths of the continent. It holds down the growth of wages rates, and it depresses employment.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Job
  • Fall
  • Deep

• I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Up
  • Doing
  • Comfortable

• I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school, and I've retained a bit of that in my adulthood.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Love
  • Fashion
  • Kid

• Even if you're an angry, intense person, you also have to have intense joy about life and intense feelings about the world.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Life
  • World
  • Joy

• The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Time
  • She
  • Power

• They hated Sammy Hagar for 12 years and they hate him to this day.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Hate
  • Day
  • Him

• The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Way
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• I don't have to worry about writing jokes. I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as I'm alive and I'm living and I'm experiencing different things every day, the show will always change.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Different
  • Long
  • Writing

• I've always known that Rio and Tokyo are my two Olympics. Now that Rio hasn't gone to plan, Tokyo has to work, and I'm more motivated than ever.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Work
  • Always
  • Motivated

• 'Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.'

  

  Anne Rice
  • Interesting
  • Enemy

• It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Well, all the plays that I was trying to write … were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Trying

• I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Control

• Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Good
  • inspirational

• Life is getting better, but that won’t stop a war if politicians and business people decide it’s to their advantage to have one.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• I don't necessarily want to hear about my talent or my greatness as an actor.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Greatness

• If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Seek
  • Koran

• 'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

  

  Plautus