Ammianus Marcellinus Quotes
Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result.
Ammianus Marcellinus
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Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
Olivia Wilde
But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.
Nicki Minaj
Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique temples, Roman basilicas, and even the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are not the works of single personalities but creations of entire epochs.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
Oscar Wilde
Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!
Oscar Wilde
The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.
Oscar Wilde
Other people were fantastic at tapping into electricity. We'd be in a place with no electricity and they would make electricity happen.
Marc Singer
We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than comprehensively, and we do this not through conscious design or because we are not intelligent or capable, but because of the way in which deep cultural undercurrents structure life in subtle but highly consistent ways that are not consciously formulated.
Edward T. Hall
I've had pretty much the same crew for all the films that I've made, and I've managed to have really nice, calm, funny people. That is a big part of it, a family feeling of warmth and finding something interesting and making a platform for them to perform. It's a very difficult job, acting, in that it's totally counterintuitive to how we are brought up.
Ben Wheatley
The revolution begins at home.
Cherrie Moraga
American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.
Wallace Stegner
