Livy Quotes

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

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• People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • First
  • Meeting

• Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Know
  • Player
  • Fans

• There are essential elements for our public schools to fully develop the potential of both students and educators. They should be centers of community, where students, families and educators work together to support student success. They should foster collaboration.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Work
  • Together
  • Success

• Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Believe
  • Starting

• Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Money
  • Me

• It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.

  

  Frances Wright
  • May
  • Best
  • Liberty

• Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it's overwhelming.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Know
  • Embrace

• I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.'

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Start

• I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Family
  • Control
  • Better

• There's a nastiness to conversations about U.S. education reform, which are characterized by the kind of stark taking-of-sides that's usually reserved for debates over guns or abortion rights.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Education
  • Rights
  • Abortion

• If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Think
  • You
  • English

• As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

  

  Laura Nyro
  • Beautiful
  • Simplicity

• Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Joy
  • Band
  • Genius

• You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Work
  • Home
  • Find

• I'm not interested in making all-black films - I come from a very diverse culture; I want to work with every type of person. I work a lot with women executives because they seem to be a lot more open minded about that and a lot more progressive in that way.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • Women
  • Black

• For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I believed in merger and unity of the two territories.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Life
  • Unity

• They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.

  

  Edward Coke

• The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • True
  • Value
  • Sense

• I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Trying
  • Me
  • Audience

• Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

  

  George Carlin
  • Good
  • Trying

• A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do, that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit, that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Life
  • Rule
  • Law Of Nature

• I am a very sensitive person, very impulsive and emotional.

  

  Beth Gibbons Portishead
  • Emotional

• A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

  

  Livy