Cassius Dio Quotes
The best ruler, the one who is of any real value, should not only perform all the duties which fall to his lot, but should provide for the rest of his subjects, so that they can develop their virtues to the full.
Cassius Dio
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I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love...
Jimmy Buffett
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Napoleon Hill
I always buy something to make myself motivated. It's good to feel that you can buy something and motivate yourself. That's what I do, just buy stuff. I like to buy something new and then record.
Keith Matthew Thornton
The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.
Marianne Williamson
Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.
F. R. Leavis
Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a car, blown up, immolated, raped or tortured. Now all children, along with their elders, see such images every day of their lives and are expected to enjoy them. ... The seven-year-old who hides his eyes in the family cops-and-robbers drama is desensitized four years later to a point where he crunches potato chips through the latest video nasty.
Penelope Leach
The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's.
Periander
I think that when he had his day down here (in Iowa City), he proved to everybody what he has. I see the guy run every day. I know he can run. I think when the scouts came here, they saw what they thought they knew - that this guy can run.
Norm Parker
Giving free advice is a sad waste of effort. In the first place, no man will act upon it unless he is already inclined to do so. Secondly, when a man lays his case before you, the idea that he is asking your advice is a polite fabrication. He merely is suggesting that he is doing so, while as a fact his real object is to acquaint you with his personal activity. He wants to talk to somebody, being a natural gossip or gadder, and he plays upon your propensity for "giving advice" in order to get an audience.
William H. McMaster
I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it.
Quincy Jones
Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The best ruler, the one who is of any real value, should not only perform all the duties which fall to his lot, but should provide for the rest of his subjects, so that they can develop their virtues to the full.
Cassius Dio
