Livy Quotes

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

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• You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mother
  • Inspiration
  • Suggestions

• I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Truth
  • Giving
  • Now

• The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • People
  • Like
  • Thought

• I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Age

• You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Up
  • Want
  • Luck

• I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • World
  • Reading
  • Thought

• What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • War
  • End

• You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • World
  • Ideas

• It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Want
  • Media
  • Democratic

• As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Professional
  • Actor
  • Choice

• The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Way
  • Government
  • Tyranny

• Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Being
  • Production
  • Proteins

• If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • May
  • True
  • Expression

• A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Hurt

• Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.

  

  Haldan Keffer Hartline
  • Culture
  • Care
  • Contribution

• Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity.

  

  Tariq Anwar
  • Technology
  • Play
  • Role

• My supporters are people who believe in being fiscally responsible and socially accepting. I think most people are in that category. Speaking with a broad brushstroke, those are my supporters.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Think

• 'Falling Skies' is not just about aliens attacking. It's also about humanity, survival, hope and the determination to rebuild our world, starting from pretty much nothing.

  

  Maxim Knight
  • World
  • Hope
  • Pretty

• We can see after 200+ years that the American model failed. It is not limited. It is totalitarian. And getting worse.

  

  Wendy McElroy
  • Years
  • Models

• In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other.

  

  Bill Pascrell
  • Fire
  • Police

• A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Suffering
  • Fire
  • Littles

• If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Fun
  • You
  • Rhythm

• Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

  

  Livy
  • Fire
  • Envy