Sallust Quotes

Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.

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• A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Movement
  • Sides
  • Masses

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • Love
  • Short

• We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • You
  • Write
  • Original

• His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Knowledge
  • Teach
  • Nothing

• Showbiz can be cruel.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Cruel
  • Showbiz

• I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Teacher
  • Years
  • Said

• Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Black
  • Hurt

• Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • World
  • Music
  • Me

• If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Mind
  • Rest
  • Tongue

• From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Done

• We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Wall
  • Promise
  • Security

• It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

  

  O. Henry
  • Way
  • Inside
  • Turn

• When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up

• There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the machine selects and connects just one of a million possible stations. It does not run over them all. It pays attention only to a class given by a first digit, and so on; and thus proceeds rapidly and almost unerringly to the selected station.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Attention

• It was a small mistake Sometimes that is all it takes.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Small
  • Mistake

• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Judge

• I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most.

  

  Andrea Hirata
  • Beautiful
  • Attention

• I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.

  

  Aviva
  • Done

• When I think of something that really is me, that I'm proud of, is honestly, I would have to say, I've never sold my soul along the way... All those things, you're selling your soul, and I don't think I have.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Soul
  • Proud

• It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

  

  Plato
  • World
  • Soul

• Joe Carroll had a certain black comedy to him. But I think it's lovely playing a man who, in his heart and soul, is a gentle man. And he's wounded and complicated.

  

  James Purefoy
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Black

• Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.

  

  Sallust
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Cosmos