Ovid Quotes

Crede mihi, bene qui latuit bene vixit, et intraFortunam debet quisque manere suam.

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• He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Dog
  • Mirror
  • Humble

• Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.

  

  Wale
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Up
  • Work
  • Young

• My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Life
  • Mission
  • Craftsmanship

• Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.

  

  La Monte Young
  • People
  • Up
  • Knowledge

• To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • May
  • Death
  • Know

• Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Me
  • Trust
  • Five

• I've met lots of interesting people, but Lucian Freud is the one who sticks out because I spent so much time with him. He taught me discipline, which I hadn't been taught properly before. If I was, like, two seconds, late, he would kick off. Once, I was three minutes late, and he went absolutely berserk.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Time
  • Interesting

• For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Stories

• I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Pretty
  • Challenge
  • Scary

• It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music – my taste in chord progressions and melodies.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Song
  • Lyrics

• I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Up
  • Done
  • Singing

• The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites.

  

  Malcolm X
  • American
  • Racism
  • Racial

• I started attending community college when I was 14 or 15, just doing general education stuff like history and mathematics. Then I went on to California State University Long Beach to pursue a degree in journalism. And then I ended up dropping out to found Oculus.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Up
  • Long
  • History

• We need to have complete certainty that things will work out, not because we are righteous or wise, but because of the time, the effort, the prayers, and the tools we are using. From the moment we are given awareness about some bigger picture or mission, we have to have complete focus on what to do to get to that place.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Time
  • Work
  • Focus

• ABC had all these schlocky, bubblegum acts, and we had to come up with suitable material for them. In which we were amazingly unsuccessful.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Up
  • Material
  • Unsuccessful

• I wish there was an on & off switch for my brain. I think too fucking much.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Wish
  • Brain

• It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.

  

  Annie Besant
  • Wife

• I read all the books for 'Twilight.'

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Twilight

• Cities could open up their property and assets to sharing economy apps that make it easier to find parking spaces or homes for rent. By aligning private-sector incentives with the public good, cities will create confidence among taxpayers.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
  • Up
  • Good
  • Confidence

• I'm an educator. I'm an organizer.

  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

• Even though he lived on the beach in college, he didn't have a tan. Now that's a serious player!

  

  Bill Fitch
  • Player
  • Beach
  • Tan

• Fanaticism and extremism cannot grow on an earth whose soil is embedded in the spirit of tolerance, moderation, and balance. Good governance can eliminate injustice, destitution and poverty.' Remarks at a Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Summit 5 December 2005.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Good
  • Earth
  • Balance

• Crede mihi, bene qui latuit bene vixit, et intraFortunam debet quisque manere suam.

  

  Ovid