Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes
The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.Horace
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
Salma Hayek -
Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
Madisen Beaty -
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T. S. Eliot -
There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
Sam Donaldson -
I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
Beau Bridges
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
Pat Paulsen -
My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
Fantasia Barrino -
I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but it always does seem to find its way into a lot of things.
Kate Micucci -
I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.
Patricia Cornwell -
My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my son walk into kindergarten at a school in which he was the only Jewish child out of 600 students - and this in the middle of the Bible Belt.
Karen Bender
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I'm very articulate when I wanna be. You wanna talk to me?
Ace Frehley Kiss -
Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.
E. O. Wilson -
Nadie entiende que lo has dado todo. Debes dar más.
Antonio Porchia -
True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
Alain de Botton -
I love every minute of my work.
Alice Ripley -
I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.
Jodie Foster
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Spending time with Mexican-born writer and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, you'd never guess that he's the filmmaker behind a series of movies known as the 'Death Trilogy.' The way he dotes on his children and talks about his wife makes it clear that he has a crackling passion for life.
Elvis Mitchell -
No one can deny who you are unless you are, in some way, minimizing the power and the force of your divine substance.
Debbie Ford -
I think a lot more people are starting to understand the power of YouTube.
Zoe Sugg -
People who fundamentally disagree with you politically or socially are not bad people. I can't expect that other side to have compassion for me if I can't put myself in their shoes, too.
Jonathan Van Ness -
I don't like violence.
Katey Sagal -
The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.
Horace