Plautus Quotes

Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.

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• I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Music
  • Books
  • Lie

• I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Know
  • Like
  • Immigrants

• The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Soul
  • Solitude
  • Thoughtful

• I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • World
  • Powerful
  • Eye

• I like being unconventional.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Like
  • Being
  • Unconventional

• Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Children
  • Past

• We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Long
  • Nature
  • Man

• I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Think
  • Funny

• Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Fear
  • Feelings
  • More

• Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Remember
  • Daughter
  • Medical

• I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • People
  • Think
  • Fear

• Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Earth
  • Kind
  • Creative

• Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded, and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen again and again. Give yourself permission to toot your own horn, and don't wait for anyone to praise you.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Brain
  • Yourself
  • Praise

• Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • People
  • End
  • Old

• Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Real
  • Man
  • Lost

• My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Father
  • Passion
  • Doing

• The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Process

• Now as to what pertains to these Surd numbers (which, as it were by way of reproach and calumny, having no merit of their own are also styled Irrational, Irregular, and Inexplicable) they are by many denied to be numbers properly speaking, and are wont to be banished from arithmetic to another Science, (which yet is no science) viz. algebra.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Science

• What is it to 'walk in the Spirit'? It is not self-occupation, nor even occupation with the Spirit. Walking according to the Spirit is occupation with the Lord Jesus Christ in glory. If the believer ever looks to the Lord Jesus, depends upon Him, draws all his needs from Him- if He is his All in all- then the believer walks according to the Spirit of Christ.

  

  Arno C. Gaebelein
  • Spirit
  • Christ
  • Occupation

• Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we desire it, we fear it, we worship it, we hate it. There is a divinity about cats, as long as they are silent: the silence of swans gives them an air of legend.

  

  Keith Douglas
  • Long
  • Giving
  • Hate

• If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister - who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll - and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party.

  

  Dennis Ross
  • Today
  • Party
  • Reflection

• When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it.

  

  Herb Alpert
  • Trying
  • Car
  • Listening

• Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.

  

  Plautus