Caecilius Statius Quotes

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.

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• It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.

  

  Earle Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Reflection

• Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Experience
  • Power
  • Think

• We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.

  

  Otto Schily
  • War
  • Military
  • Soldiers

• As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Help
  • Reading
  • Excited

• I really like just super dry comedy.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Comedy
  • Like
  • Just

• For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Know
  • Year
  • Construction

• What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Choices
  • Media

• There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Home
  • Like
  • Place

• At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Long
  • School
  • Art

• If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Film
  • Gun
  • Choose

• By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • World
  • Career
  • Best

• Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Time
  • World
  • Disaster

• The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Life
  • Character
  • Experience

• I have dangerous bones in my body.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Body
  • Dangerous
  • Bones

• I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Life
  • God
  • Hope

• I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Time
  • Long
  • Long Time

• New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Live
  • Like

• Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Freedom
  • Ruin
  • Brings

• What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Men
  • Children

• I'm mostly coming at the superhero legends as an outsider, I know them and I studied them but I didn't really grow up with them, but I think it allows me to sort of analyze them in a way that's kind of interesting.

  

  Eric Kripke
  • Interesting
  • Superhero
  • Grow Up

• My mind is in so many different places while we're shooting. Part of it is watching the performance, part of it is watching the camera, and part of it is thinking about the stuff that we have to get that day. It's always a pleasure watching, but you also take it for granted, when you're on the actual grind, making the show.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Pleasure

• I remember my school had some of the first Apple IIs in North Carolina. I remember, when I first started using them, we were using a cassette tape to store programs because we didn't have floppy disk drives.

  

  Parker Harris
  • School
  • Remember
  • First

• I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Imagination
  • Terror
  • Scare

• Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.

  

  Caecilius Statius
  • Everything
  • Servant
  • Delay