Lucretius Quotes
Consuetudo concinnat amorem;nam leviter quamvis quod crebro tunditur ictu,vincitur in longo spatio tamen atque labascit.Nonne vides etiam guttas in saxa cadentisumoris longo in spatio pertundere saxa?
Lucretius
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Whether you need to like a character, I don't think that's necessary in order to portray him.
J. K. Simmons
It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their parents were so on top of them about getting into an Ivy League school since they were so young, they were just drilled and drilled and drilled, to the point that they just don't know why they want to go.
Nat Wolff
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Madame de Stael
Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.
Basil Hume
Your present is shaped by your yesterday, but you don't have to advertise it.
Vijay Sethupathi
Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.
Ursula K. Le Guin
I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.
Daniel Ek
What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.
P. J. O'Rourke
It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
Larry Holmes
The machine of awards season is very stressful. But this is the Oscars! It's your peers, your heroes, people you admire, the people who inspired you to get into this work in the first place. It's a pretty overwhelming feeling when you think about it.
Taylor Sheridan
The idea that an actress - mostly lauded for her performances in more than a dozen films - somehow represents a threat to Iran's national security is laughable at best. But in Ahangarani's case, far from anything humorous, the allegations have actually resulted in the sober prospect of real prison time.
Nazanin Boniadi
New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.
Federico Garcia Lorca
It comes up over and over and over again that a ten times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries or the volume metric, the space-oriented density of batteries, would enable so many other moonshots that that's one that just constantly comes up over and over again, and we will start that moonshot if we can find a great idea.
Astro Teller
'I don't think young people are as demoralized as the media and government would like us to think. The obvious sign of that is how strong and how close personal connections are and how much people are able to build a life for themselves, despite all this stuff that's been thrown at them.'
Thom Yorke
Radiohead
The fragile art of existenceIs kept alive by sheer persistenceThe fragile art of existence.No time for self-pityNo time for dwelling on what should have beenBut is yet to be.
Chuck Schuldiner
We don’t have to convince an unwilling God to come and refresh us with His presence. He’s for it. But, He cannot be manipulated. But when sincere hearts who know they cannot do His work nor His will without Him, humbly pray, He will answer.
J. Edwin Orr
Wonder, Carlyle declared, is the beginning of philosophy. It is not wonder, but rather the social enthusiasm which revolts from the sordidness of mean streets and the joylessness of withered lives, that is the beginning of economic science. Here, if in no other field, Comte's great phrase holds good: "It is for the heart to suggest our problems; it is for the intellect to solve them.... The only position for which the intellect is primarily adapted is to be the servant of the social sympathies.
Arthur Cecil Pigou
Consuetudo concinnat amorem;nam leviter quamvis quod crebro tunditur ictu,vincitur in longo spatio tamen atque labascit.Nonne vides etiam guttas in saxa cadentisumoris longo in spatio pertundere saxa?
Lucretius
