Lucretius Quotes

Suave mari magno turbantibus aequora ventise terra magnum alterius spectare laborem;non quia vexari quemquamst jucunda voluptas,sed quibus ipse malis careas quia cernere suave est.

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• Export anything to a friendly country except American management.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Country
  • American
  • Management

• I love making smoothies post-workout. My favorite - depending on the day - is either a chocolate whey protein shake with banana and peanut butter, or one with vanilla and berries.

  

  Parker Young
  • Love
  • Day
  • Chocolate

• My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Good
  • Great
  • Parents

• Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Business
  • Dream

• I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Myself
  • Picture
  • Mirror

• There is too little courtship in the world.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • World
  • Little
  • Courtship

• I was happy to kind of always scoot under the radar.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Happy
  • Kind
  • Always

• If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I'd like to do a play, and I'd like to do a musical.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Play
  • Like
  • Musical

• Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Like
  • Gold
  • Something

• Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • People
  • Why
  • Vote

• I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There's a freedom in that, so that's why I love to paint.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Freedom
  • Feel
  • Better

• Philanthropists can learn important lessons from business entrepreneurs. They both spend their time solving problems. And to be successful, they both must overcome physical challenges and create self-sustaining operations. And ultimately, they must allow people to take action for their own benefit.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Baseball
  • Ballet

• Be generous! Give to those whom you love; give to those who love you; give to the fortunate; give to the unfortunate; yes - give especially to those to whom you don’t want to give.

  

  W. Clement Stone

• This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Knowledge

• My voice is different, but I don't think I'm the only one with a different take on pop music.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Music
  • Different

• Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Taken
  • Trust
  • Democracy

• Yes, I was stupid. The channels of my senses were blocked, how long had it been since life flowed in them. What a mistake it had been to close off the meaning of my existence in the rites that Mario offered with cautious conjugal rapture. What a mistake it had been to entrust the sense of myself to his gratifications, his enthusiasms, to the ever more productive course of his life. What a mistake, above all, it had been to believe that I couldn’t live without him, when for a long time I had not been at all certain that I was alive with him.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Mistake

• If you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Help
  • Think
  • Humanity

• Suave mari magno turbantibus aequora ventise terra magnum alterius spectare laborem;non quia vexari quemquamst jucunda voluptas,sed quibus ipse malis careas quia cernere suave est.

  

  Lucretius