Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
Horace
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
Quintus Ennius
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Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.
Taylor Hackford
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Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores.
Daniel Dennett
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I do not like bad photographs. I don't like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on stage, for very 'toppy' lighting, which makes a child look 50. Ten o'clock is very good. If someone is taking a picture, you say, 'Lamps at 10 o'clock,' then everybody looks lovely.
Joanna Lumley
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Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go there, and if possible, stay long enough to get a real feeling for what's going on.
Joe Sacco
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Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.
Brandi Carlile
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In the Sapient tongue he said softly, ‘Tell me, Master, did you know Incarceron was tiny?’ ‘Is it?’ Sapphique replied in the same language, his green eyes as he looked up lit by deep points of flame. ‘To you, perhaps. Not to its Prisoners. Every prison is a universe for its inmates. And think, Jared Sapiens. Might not the Realm also be tiny, swinging from the watchchain of some being in a world even vaster?
Catherine Fisher
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When I sing, I try to communicate certain emotions, and that's the voice that comes out.
Anthony Santos
Aventura
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If someone is willing to reconsider the results of World War II, let us discuss this. But then we will have to discuss not only Kaliningrad, but also the eastern lands of Germany, the city of Lvov, a former part of Poland, and so on, and so forth. There are also Hungary and Romania on the list.
Vladimir Putin
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Bob Dole is not a romantic, at least not an immediate one. Bob Dole is not one to waste a lot of time on metaphor.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
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A good marriage isn't something you find; it's something you make.
Gary L. Thomas
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Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
Horace