Livy Quotes

Potius sero quam nunquam.

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• The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.

  

  Malcolm X
  • History
  • Man
  • Mistake

• To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Food
  • Muse
  • Shelter

• He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Back
  • Well
  • Satisfied

• Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Love
  • Home
  • Fireside

• Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Writing
  • Wish
  • Struggle

• When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'

  

  Tanc Sade
  • You
  • Water
  • Like

• India always inspires me.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Me
  • Always
  • India

• As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Long
  • Family
  • Single

• It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Black
  • Vote
  • Activity

• I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • Acting
  • Movies
  • Week

• Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Children
  • Know
  • Hunger

• Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Views
  • Sell
  • Minority

• If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Art
  • Want
  • Free

• All I've done is my job, and I intend to continue doing it. And I'm not especially worried about the criticism that comes from the bench.

  

  Baltasar Garzon
  • Done
  • Job
  • Doing

• I'm very committed to stable and adequate funding for education.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Education
  • Very
  • Funding

• In a normal movie, you'd never see one guy talk for an entire page, whether good or bad.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movie

• I am never so happy as when I am really engaged in good earnest, & it makes me must wonderfully cheerful & merry at other times, which is curious & very satisfactory.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Happy
  • Curious
  • Earnest

• Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds to the decisions of the will ... Yet what he wishes he cannot accomplish ... In the very movement of the appetite, it has no mode corresponding to the decision of the will.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Control
  • Decision
  • Wishes

• It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

  

  William Blake
  • God
  • Angels
  • Holiness

• There is a big difference between being lonely and being alone. I am alone when I write, but I am rarely lonely.

  

  Andrew McAleer
  • Writing
  • Lonely
  • Differences

• I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in the form of hospitals, churches, public libraries, universities, parks, recreation grounds, art museums and theatres I wonder what on earth we should do without them.

  

  William Lyon Phelps
  • Art
  • Theatre
  • Library

• Potius sero quam nunquam.

  

  Livy