Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) Quotes

Trust one who has tried.

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• Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • World
  • War
  • Hope

• I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • House
  • Best
  • Animals

• Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Night
  • Window
  • Early

• I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Taken
  • Industry
  • Seriously

• I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mother

• But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Old
  • Mystery

• I would be happy if people just called me an actor.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Light
  • Day

• I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Football
  • Care
  • Easy

• I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Life
  • Feelings
  • My Life

• Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Art
  • Truth

• When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Feel

• Loopt wouldn't have happened without Y Combinator.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Happened
  • Without

• I want to do what I can to give the next generation of athletes added advantages in the game.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Want
  • Game
  • Generation

• The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Free
  • Feeling
  • Light

• Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Prayer
  • Answered
  • Ceases

• You call me Mr. Pitiful. Baby that's my name now, oh. They call me Mr. Pitiful. That's how I got my fame. But people just don`t understand, now. What makes a man feel so blue, now. Ooh, they call me Mr. Pitiful. Cause I lost someone just like you, now.

  

  Otis Redding
  • People
  • Lost
  • Baby

• The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.

  

  Anne Rice
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Strong

• I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.

  

  Billy Childish
  • Music

• If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Book
  • Perfect

• And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.

  

  Daniel Libeskind
  • City
  • Design

• The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

  

  Sun Ra
  • Impossible
  • Failed
  • Tried

• I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Trust
  • Training
  • Gentleman

• Trust one who has tried.

  

  Virgil
  • Trust
  • Tried