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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It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
Floyd Abrams
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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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It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
Tabitha King
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Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece.
James Surowiecki
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The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.
Bill Bennett
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In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.
James Payn
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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
