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
  • Know

• 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

• 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

• O God, the God of formation, Ruler, strengthener of blood. Christ Jesus, that guards. Princes loud-proclaiming go their course For a decaying acquisition.

  

  Taliesin
  • God
  • Jesus

• When you edit, you imagine your enemy is seated on the other side of the table. Your enemy! And your enemy is going to read that with a viciousness, because he knows where you didn't work on it. He's going to shake it and really aim for that jugular. So you are going to polish, and revise, and rewrite, and cut out, and shape it, so that your enemy has no place to grip it. That's how you revise.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Enemy
  • Cutting
  • Imagine

• We always focus on the quality of music because as long as the content is good, then the interest will be there.

  

  G-Dragon
  • Good
  • Music
  • Long

• It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Flute
  • Solid wood

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

  

  Quintus Curtius Rufus