Livy Quotes

You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory.

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• To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Single
  • Prayer

• We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Power
  • Without
  • WIld

• I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Happy
  • Better
  • Angry

• Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Control
  • Choices
  • Wise

• I'm not a leading man.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Man
  • Leading
  • Leading Man

• You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Fall
  • Down
  • Eating

• If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.

  

  Rand Paul
  • President
  • Shoes
  • More

• I don't know anything about music.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Music
  • Know
  • Anything

• One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Marriage
  • Public
  • Get

• Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

  

  Eason Jordan
  • People
  • Information
  • Sin

• It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • You
  • Two

• American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• My guilty pleasure is reality TV, as I am really nosey.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Reality
  • TV
  • Nosey

• I think I'll die underrated, but it's alright, man.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Think
  • Man
  • Die

• I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations, you have to always consider that. Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music, and you always have to keep that in mind. It's not so much financial as making sure it gets the shot and is heard on the radio.

  

  Babyface
  • Music
  • Different
  • Mind

• Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Women
  • Energy

• Danny DeVito later told me that he knew he wanted me for 'Matilda' the second I walked in the door. I'm not sure if this is true, or if he was just being nice, but I was thrilled when I got it.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • True
  • Nice
  • Thrilled

• Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Great
  • Think
  • Leader

• His noble negligences teachWhat others' toils despair to reach.

  

  Matthew Prior

• As far as sacred Scripture is concerned, however much froward men try to gnaw at it, nevertheless it clearly is crammed with thoughts that could not be humanly conceived. Let each of the prophets be looked into: none will be found who does not far exceed human measure. Consequently, those for whom prophetic doctrine is tasteless ought to be thought of as lacking taste buds.

  

  John Calvin
  • Thoughts
  • Scripture
  • Buds

• The general commanding congratulates his troops on their brilliant and successful occupation of Roanoke Island. The courage and steadiness they have shown under fire is what he expected from them, and he accepts it as a token of future victory.

  

  Ambrose Burnside
  • Future
  • Courage
  • Fire

• The fifth and by far the most important reason is that stoning is literally a means of crushing the murderer's head by means of a rock, which is symbolic of God. This is analogous to the crushing of the head of the serpent in Genesis 3:15. This symbolism testifies to the final victory of God over all the hosts of Satan. Stoning is therefore integral to the commandment against murder.

  

  Gary North
  • God
  • Victory
  • Final

• Victory over all the circumstances of life comes not by might, nor by power, but by a practical confidence in God and by allowing His Spirit to dwell in our hearts and control our actions and emotions. Learn in the days of ease and comfort, to think in terms of the prayer that follows, so that when the days of hardship come you will be fully prepared and equipped to meet them.

  

  Eric Liddell
  • God
  • Confidence
  • Prayer

• You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory.

  

  Livy
  • Victory