Lucretius Quotes

Ergo vivida vis animi pervicit et extraprocessit longe flammantia moenia mundiatque omne immensum peragravit mente animoque.

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• Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Important
  • Woman
  • Dress

• Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Experience
  • Morning
  • Again

• I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Never
  • Model
  • Thing

• Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Animals
  • Marine

• Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Time
  • Difficult
  • Flow

• Every Westerner is jubilating that the Berlin Wall has fallen. Something worst than the Berlin Wall is in Palestine; and nobody is talking about it.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Wall
  • Talking
  • Worst

• When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Home
  • Childhood
  • Find

• I'd made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Time
  • Work
  • Money

• Having a multi-cultural background has granted me access into different ideologies, cultures, and ways of living. It has shaped who I am and how I participate in the world.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • World
  • Living
  • Background

• Dreams and reality are united in our imagination. The artist possesses the means to create only after he has effective command of his faculty of empathy which he must develop simultaneously with his imaginative capacity.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Reality
  • Imagination
  • Empathy

• I have no complaints, except for the world.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • World

• Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • People
  • Character
  • Respect

• So … uh … I'd better explain the tits. Um … didn't have those at school. Wanted to, but not in the school curriculum … even though I asked.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • School

• Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Learning

• I'm not afraid of death myself, because I'm not gonna know I'm dead. I'm awed a bit by the idea, but I'm perfectly reconciled to it. Certainly I am, as everyone is, reconciled to everyone else's death but their own. They think an exception can be made in their own case.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Death

• When I founded Stitch Fix, I wanted to create a company that I would want to work at for the rest of my life.

  

  Katrina Lake
  • Life
  • Work
  • Rest

• The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for example, like this, like, 'We're going to die,' and you have time, like, five hours to die, it becomes a comedy.

  

  Javier Camara
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Die

• When I sat down to write 'Rules of Civility,' I didn't write it for anybody but myself. I wasn't trying to make my mark or make money. I wasn't anxious about feeding my kids or whether my father would be proud of me.

  

  Amor Towles
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Kids

• Why who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know nothing else but miracles, whether they be animals feeding in the fields, Or, birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air, Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring; These, with the rest, one and all, are to me, miracles.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Miracle
  • Animals
  • Birds

• Judith Jamison is, like, supreme.

  

  Susan Kelechi Watson
  • Supreme

• Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration.

  

  David Axelrod
  • Great
  • Respect
  • Taken

• I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Future
  • Past

• Ergo vivida vis animi pervicit et extraprocessit longe flammantia moenia mundiatque omne immensum peragravit mente animoque.

  

  Lucretius