Ovid Quotes

Cede repugnanti; cedendo victor abibis.

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• I look back on some of my outfits, and I'm like: 'Why did I wear that? Where are my friends and why didn't they tell me not to leave the house?' If they had, I probably would've said, 'You don't know what you're talking about. This looks amazing.'

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Friends
  • House
  • Me

• I hate parameters. They immediately alienate a bunch of people.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Hate
  • Bunch

• Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Courage
  • inspirational
  • More

• The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Simple

• Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • First
  • Essential
  • Secrecy

• When it comes to swag, there's no gender involved.

  

  Young Thug
  • Involved
  • Gender

• I want to abolish tags like 'comeback' and 'retirement' that are used to define every married female actor. What is the big deal? In Hollywood, every top actor takes a break, has children, and gets back to work.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Work
  • Children
  • Retirement

• It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got your best interests at heart. They're very devious nowadays.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Heart

• If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Friend
  • Find
  • Looking

• He wrote love stories, a thing I have always kept free from, holding the belief that the well-known and popular sentiment is not properly matter for publication, but something to be privately handled by the alienist and the florist.

  

  O. Henry
  • Free
  • Popular

• In response to nearly a thousand queries, the Scientology delegation handed over forty-eight binders of supporting material, stretching nearly seven linear feet.

  

  Lawrence Wright

• I found a new me. When I first came over to America, it was like, 'How can I be rich? How can I build my movie career? How can I become the most muscular man?' It was all about me, and then there was this turn, and I found it was really great to do this.

  

  Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Great
  • America
  • Movie

• Nulli penitus descendere ferrocontigit; alta sedent civilis volnera dextrae.

  

  Lucan

• Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Society
  • Commitment

• I'm probably one of the worst people with numbers you've ever met. My brothers always kid that they think I'm counting cards in Vegas, but I'm just trying to add things up.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• The maddening thing is as actors of either sex, we get better as we get older, and so when you are 65, you think, 'I could play Juliet now. I understand it.'

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Sex

• For as long as anyone can remember, reliable, cheap electricity has been taken for granted in the United States.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Taken

• Not having insurance not only destroys your life, it destroys your fiscal life. It breaks up marriages. You cannot functions anywhere unless you have good health.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.

  

  David Foster Wallace

• Victims are members of society whose problems represent the memory of suffering, rage, and pain in a world that longs to forget.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Suffering
  • Forget
  • Victims

• When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bowler hats. It was into this world that I launched my new ideas about fashion.

  

  Mary Quant
  • World
  • City
  • Fashion

• Start your day in a upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Day
  • Rest
  • Path

• There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Death
  • Waiting

• Cede repugnanti; cedendo victor abibis.

  

  Ovid