Apuleius Quotes

“I little esteeme to see your visage and figure, little doe I regard the night and darknesse thereof, for you are my only light.”

Apuleius

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• I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Ski
  • Descending
  • Himalayas

• I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Hate
  • Doing
  • Just

• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Strong

• I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Family
  • Feminist

• We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Trying
  • Responsibility
  • Organization

• I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Run
  • Going
  • Away

• It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Society
  • Words
  • Practice

• Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Political
  • Past
  • Eyes

• The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Country
  • Why
  • Home

• All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Death
  • Sentences

• Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. As long as combat was desirable as the source of honor and glory, the knight had no wish to share it with the commoner, even for the sake of success.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Long
  • Success
  • Wish

• I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me - to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Wish

• The one without second is emptiness, the other one makes it true.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • True

• I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?'

  

  Edward Heath

• The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.

  

  Margaret Drabble
  • Mind
  • Reality

• To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Music

• We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

  

  Anna Letitia Barbauld
  • Why
  • Alone

• I got sick of being famous. It is not a desirable 'job.'

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Job
  • Famous
  • Sick

• I've never watched Trainspotting. I just know it's a very critically acclaimed film. In fact, I've never watched any of Danny's movies [means before he met him]. I just worked with him and felt the energy of what he is about initially before I do something. In a way, I think that's why we have discovered each other rather than replicate something else.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Energy

• When I get mean, I get mean.

  

  Mick Mars Mötley Crüe
  • Mean

• You're not just playing for yourself but for your country, and that's nerve-wracking. It makes you work harder.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Country
  • Playing
  • Work Hard

• They asked me to sing - actually, it was Dee Dee, because he had seen me in Sniper and thought I wasn't like anybody else. Everybody else was doing an Iggy or a Mick Jagger.

  

  Jeffrey Ross Hyman Ramones

• And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none? Only those whose accumulations are stained with dishonesty and whose immoral methods have given them a distorted view of business, society and government. Accumulating by conscious frauds more money than they can use upon themselves, wisely distribute or safely leave to their children, these denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw a light upon their crimes.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • World
  • Light
  • Enemy

• “I little esteeme to see your visage and figure, little doe I regard the night and darknesse thereof, for you are my only light.”

  

  Apuleius
  • Light
  • Doe
  • Visage