Quintus Curtius Rufus Quotes

Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.

Quintus Curtius Rufus

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• It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Good
  • Music
  • Job

• I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Model

• I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Fun

• The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • First

• John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Alone
  • Like

• Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Love
  • Violence
  • For Her

• I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Art
  • Effort

• We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

  

  O. Henry
  • May
  • Environmental
  • Weather

• I bought an espresso maker and coffee maker and make them myself every day.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Coffee

• If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Mind
  • Movie
  • Reading

• When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Art
  • Respect
  • Learning

• You know how macho boys get when they're all together? Well, the set of 'Desperado' was like that. They were all trying to put me down, saying, 'Bring on the stuntwoman, Salma can't do that.' But I did everything.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Me

• If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • World
  • Trying
  • Training

• I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Life
  • Past
  • Change

• It was time to be honest with myself. To survive all the shame this world will throw at you, you have to hold yourself tall, look your accuser straight in the eye. Even if it’s your own face looking back at you.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Time
  • World

• I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria, as well as Iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency: If you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • America
  • Action

• To stagnate in the sun, goldenly, like an obscure lake surrounded by flowers.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Sun
  • Lake

• Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed . . .

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Violence
  • Dumb

• Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Man
  • Growth
  • Only

• Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • Courage

• I've met Tony Danza. He was really nice. And he looks... I feel like he hasn't aged. He looks exactly the same. He's just Tony Danza. He's exactly the same as he's always been.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Nice

• As I get older, I use less jewelry - necklace or earrings each morning, not both; my clothes are getting more basic - fewer colours and simpler cuts; and my make-up is stripped back to basics.

  

  Tracy Chevalier
  • Morning
  • Cutting
  • Clothes

• Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.

  

  Quintus Curtius Rufus