Livy Quotes

Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.

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• In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Country
  • Lost

• If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Want
  • Interesting

• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Cat
  • Down
  • Clever

• I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Difference
  • Match
  • Fresh

• I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Club

• I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Skin
  • Routines
  • Moisture

• If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kids
  • Practice
  • Better

• When I was in drama school, I really got into a dark place. I went to a therapist - it was really helpful to have that dialogue with someone. So I understand anxiety.

  

  Finn Jones
  • School
  • Dark
  • Drama

• A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Experience
  • London
  • Bicycle

• That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Business
  • Think
  • Weird

• I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Money
  • She
  • Mother

• There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Weird

• Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Age
  • First
  • Ever

• If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

  

  Dane Cook
  • You
  • Funny
  • Say

• I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Think
  • Elderly

• I love a good comedy, but the slapstick sitcom belly-laugh sort of comedy - the multicam thing - is not really where my interests lie. I'm very interested in single-cam, in intimate portraits. I like it when comedies have a little bit of realism and a little bit of darkness to them. It makes them more palatable and more relatable and grounded.

  

  Tara Lynne Barr
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Lie

• I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Design
  • Meaning
  • Excited

• My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • More
  • Roots
  • Beatles

• If you were just to look at Lockheed Martin, you'd see a lot of women in senior roles in our company and, not only that, our customers, so I don't consider it an old boys' club.

  

  Marillyn Hewson
  • Women
  • Senior

• I took Spanish in high school and I didn't do too well in it. My Spanish teacher told me not to go on with Spanish anymore, so I was discouraged a little bit.

  

  Tyler Posey
  • School
  • High
  • Teacher

• I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they did 'Teen Spirit,' and it wasn't very good. But in all seriousness, 'Teen Spirit' was a great song. If subconsciously or somehow I had any influence on that, I'll take that as a compliment.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Good
  • Great
  • Song

• It is better to learn late than never.

  

  Publilius Syrus

• A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.

  

  Livy
  • Great
  • Control
  • Luck