Claudius Claudianus Quotes
He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.Claudius Claudianus
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
H. L. Mencken -
First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.
Mac Davis -
That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that.
Naomi Klein -
We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.
Mamata Banerjee -
I'm not a self-promoter. I'm not on TV all the time.
Carl Forti -
Career diversification ain't a bad thing.
Vin Diesel
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If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.
Larry David -
I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
I saw a documentary on the Naadam festival that happens in Mongolia during the summer. One of the features of it is a horse race across the plains that all the young men enter - some as young as 12 years old. It's such a spectacular sight. It's incredible to think that this is a tradition that has been going on for centuries.
Caitriona Balfe -
America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.
Anand Giridharadas -
Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
Karl Pearson -
In Hollywood especially, if you're gay and conservative, it's worse to be a conservative in the gay community than it is to be a conservative in Hollywood.
Andrew Breitbart
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
Yann Martel -
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
T. H. White -
It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial debacle. After all, they and their predecessors engineered the approaching tsunami. As the situation becomes direr, the federal government's actions will grow more oppressive.
Mark Levin -
When people do something extraordinarily well, it's self-evident. It could be art. It could be a circus, whatever it is, where people are doing incredible things. It's self-evident. You know that it's beautiful. You know that it's very difficult, but it looks easy.
Gabe Polsky -
Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of writing is out there, in the world, and inside, within yourself. To write, you have to give.
Jasper Fforde -
I'd have to say that, in general, models take themselves too seriously. Basically, they are genetic freaks who spend a couple of hours in hair and makeup.
Rebecca Romijn
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Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.
Andreas Gursky -
He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.
Claudius Claudianus