Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus) Quotes

I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.

Catullus

• Love
• Hate
• Feels
• Knows
• Asks
• Despise

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• Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Culture
  • Pain
  • Understanding

• To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
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  • Like

• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Learn
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• I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Thinking
  • Enjoy
  • Right

• The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.

  

  Larry King
  • Life
  • Business
  • Royal

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• The development of methods to monitor protein dynamics in cells together with the discovery of specific and general lysosomal inhibitors have resulted in the identification of different classes of cellular proteins, long- and short-lived, and the findings of the differential effects of the inhibitors on these groups.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Different
  • Long
  • Together

• If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Religion

• We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Writing
  • She
  • Book

• You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • You
  • Never
  • Bend

• To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • People
  • Me
  • Adventure

• The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Kind
  • Poverty
  • Argument

• The first sentence of a book is a promise.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Book
  • Promise
  • First

• In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Think
  • Worry
  • Disasters

• I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Country
  • West
  • Puppet

• It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Important
  • You
  • Party

• God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Loved

• I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Know
  • Like
  • Violence

• When life caves in, you do not need reasons -- you need comfort. You do not need some answers -- you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation -- He comes to us with His presence.

  

  Bob Benson
  • Life
  • Jesus
  • Answers

• I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Power
  • Society
  • Hate

• Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.

  

  Chet Baker
  • Time
  • Knows
  • Seems

• Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate avoids hatred; for fear and the absence of hatred may well go together, and will be always attained by one who abstains from interfering with the property of his citizens and subjects or with their women.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Love
  • Prince
  • Hatred

• I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Love
  • Friend
  • Learns

• I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.

  

  Catullus
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Feels