Claudius Claudianus Quotes

They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.

Claudius Claudianus

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• I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Political

• One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Up
  • Fall
  • End

• Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

  

  Galway Kinnell
  • Mind
  • Fall
  • Let

• It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Important
  • Interesting
  • Fall

• I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off.

  

  Wale
  • Man
  • Fall
  • Never

• The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

  

  E. B. White
  • Play
  • Fall
  • Find

• If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Law

• Unemployment rates tend to rise and fall in roughly equal proportion at all rungs of the ladder, and that happened between 1973 and 1985.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Fall
  • Equal
  • Rise

• 'One of the few benefits of the fall of civilization as we know it,' he says, 'is that there are private cellars with fine vintages everywhere one digs. It is not theft. It is archaeology.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Fall

• 'I have nine lives,' said the kitten, purring softly as it walked around in a circle and then came back to the roof; 'but I can't lose even one of them by falling in this country, because I really couldn't manage to fall if I wanted to.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Country
  • Fall

• You may think, passer-by, that FateIs a pit-fall outside of yourself,Around which you may walk by the use of foresightAnd wisdom.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • May
  • Fall
  • Wisdom

• The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society – warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may.

  

  Brian Hugh Warner
  • May
  • Truth
  • Society

• It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • Death
  • Fall

• MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any degree is perceived as a dire threat - worthy of Chicken-Little warnings that the sky is going to fall.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Fall
  • Sky

• After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.

  

  Huey Lewis Huey Lewis
  • Time
  • Live
  • Money

• For many sports fans, the onset of fall only means one thing: It's football season!

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Fall
  • Football
  • Sports

• I'm never gonna be somebody who's gonna fall down from the sky on a trapeze. That's not me. I really want to make sure that my focus stays on connecting with the audience.

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Fall
  • Focus
  • Sky

• When we're children we're told love is going to be great: Just fall in love, the rest will take care of itself - and then we fall in love and we realize, Okay, this is actually really, really hard work. This guy doesn't just tell me I'm great every day, you know?

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Work
  • Great
  • Children

• I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Comedy

• There's only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing. Sometimes you can avoid a traffic violation. But the only time it really matters is in the emergency room with your kids. That's when you want to be noticed, because it's very easy to get forgotten in an ER.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Couple

• A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

  

  Caroline Gordon
  • World
  • Book
  • Magic

• The thing about this business is that you always end up finding these amazing stories and these amazing people who make amazing films. I just want to work with good people and keep challenging myself with different kinds of characters.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.

  

  Claudius Claudianus
  • Fall
  • Raised
  • Be Dashed