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?

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• If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Men
  • Law
  • Liberty

• I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Always
  • Really
  • Rhythm

• Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Book
  • Name
  • Profound

• In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • World
  • Military
  • Financial

• The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Up
  • Team
  • Football

• I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.

  

  OMI
  • Looking
  • Looking Forward

• Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

  

  Hal David
  • Emotion
  • Try
  • Others

• Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.

  

  Nate Powell
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Change

• If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Reason
  • Explore
  • Ballet

• My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Love
  • Free
  • Practice

• It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Learning
  • Like
  • Baseball

• He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Good
  • Help
  • Wisdom

• 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
  • People
  • Time
  • Culture

• 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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  • Bad
  • Fashion

• 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
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Real

• 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
  • Time
  • Long
  • City

• You can't go east and west at the same time.

  

  Jean Charest
  • Time

• It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena... The atom must remain a tool for representing phenomena.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Science
  • Phenomena
  • Atoms

• We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind. Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the unstructured matrix, the actuality of emptiness, where the natural perfection of reality lies, we should gaze at the uncontrived sameness of every experience, all conditioning and ambition resolved with finality.

  

  Longchenpa
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Reality

• It's easier to poke holes in an idea than think of ways to fill them. And it's easier to focus on the 100 reasons you shouldn't do something rather than the one reason you should.

  

  Wendy Kopp
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  • Focus
  • Reason

• I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or so and write another dozen novels, probably some sort of imaginative literature... Never again another seven-volume saga.

  

  George R. R. Martin
  • Literature

• Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

  

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