Quintus Curtius Rufus Quotes

Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

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• Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Time
  • Good
  • Step

• There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Support
  • Gun
  • Safety

• I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Children
  • Think
  • Nice

• I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • History
  • Man
  • Blood

• Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Love
  • Hate
  • See

• I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Great
  • Why
  • Think

• You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • You
  • Brain
  • Silver

• The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • You
  • Internet
  • Living

• I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Life
  • Man
  • Changes

• I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.

  

  Iman
  • Sleep
  • Need
  • Lucky

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• If people are paying money to see me, then I want them to walk away from the show knowing they had a really great time. I want it to be very energetic and to have fun, sad, emotional and uplifting moments. I want it to have everything!

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I generally have a brand of brief on every day.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Brand

• What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • People
  • Success
  • Team

• I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Know

• A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Women
  • Man
  • Words

• Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Over
  • Wage
  • Minimum Wage

• I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Perfect
  • Husband
  • Blessed

• I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Faith
  • Advice
  • Sure

• I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any other natural resource a country can have.

  

  Danny Kaye
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Children

• I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Up
  • Book
  • Know

• When I was little, I saw the play Les Misérables on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen. So I went to my manager and told him I wanted to be in it. He asked me if I could sing, and I said no. I took one lesson and landed the role of Cosette in a national tour of the musical

  

  Ashley Tisdale
  • Amazing

• I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Age
  • Purpose
  • Lucky

• Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

  

  Quintus Curtius Rufus
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