Sallust Quotes

The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.

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• Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Walking

• I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Serious
  • Thought
  • Process

• I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Name

• I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Power
  • Future
  • Earth

• Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • World
  • History
  • Justice

• We need an honest politician in charge who doesn't care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions.

  

  Peter Hargreaves

• You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Life
  • Expectations

• Sarah Cornwell has a brilliant eye for the telling detail, and a wonderfully original way of embodying family history. I was captivated by her memorable characters and the perfectly paced revelations of their surprising relationships.

  

  Andrea Barrett
  • Family
  • Character
  • History

• The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities (smallpox) was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie.

  

  Edward Jenner
  • World
  • Joy
  • Instrument

• Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • Justice
  • Democracy
  • Citizens

• I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• My wife is so fat that when she lays on the beach the people feel sorry for her and try to roll her back into the water.

  

  Jack Roy
  • People
  • She
  • Wife

• How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Virtue
  • Qualities
  • Failings

• For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup.

  

  Ingrid Michaelson
  • Long
  • Makeup
  • Ritual

• However, given the fact that the State has a controlling stake in the company [Rosneft], it might not be the best course of action when one company under State control buys another one fully owned by the State. This is one point.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Action
  • Company
  • Facts

• The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source of all action.

  

  William Harvey
  • Heart
  • Action
  • Body

• The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.

  

  Sallust
  • Glory
  • Qualities
  • Remain