Ovid Quotes

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

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• I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Learning
  • Challenge
  • Luck

• By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Life
  • Help
  • Health

• Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Surgery
  • Plastic Surgery

• I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Life
  • Important
  • Challenge

• Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Long
  • Best
  • Acting

• It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • End
  • Kings
  • France

• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Game

• From the RBI side, the fake Indian currency note is an important issue that needed to be addressed. The other collateral benefits from this, in terms of greater accountability, better public finance, more transparency, are, by definition, areas that take time to fully play out.

  

  Urjit Patel
  • Time
  • Important
  • Better

• X Out is perfect for my schedule. It is so simple, fast and actually works. I am more confident in my own skin and always camera ready - a necessity in my line of work.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Work
  • Schedule
  • X Out

• Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.

  

  Edmund White
  • Success
  • Me
  • Boy

• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Win

• You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • You
  • Expect
  • Popularity

• Political correctness kills discussion.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Political
  • Discussion

• I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Always

• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.

  

  Ice T
  • Same
  • New York
  • Group

• A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Thought

• The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for 'peace through strength' has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Peace
  • Action

• I think it's shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don't want my name anywhere near another brand.

  

  Adele
  • Artist
  • Brand
  • Shameful

• We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and willingly give up life itself.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Men
  • Peace

• The great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts. Thus living, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Shadow

• Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

  

  Ovid
  • Men
  • Peace
  • Anger