Lucretius Quotes

Nullam rem e nihilo gigni divinitus umquam.

Lucretius

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• I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Want
  • Just

• The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Different
  • May
  • Found

• I didn't start exercising until the end of my modeling career. When you're young, you eat and drink what you want and stay up all night and still look good.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Good
  • Career

• I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Same
  • Try
  • Humble

• People really don't understand what actors do.

  

  Sally Field
  • People
  • Understand
  • Really

• My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Song
  • Piano
  • Audition

• In terms of the pricing of football tickets, there's no need - given the massive amount of money that's coming in now from television rights, there's no need for them to be greedy. Look after the supporters; make sure they can still afford to go and watch football.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Money
  • Football
  • Television

• When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, 'smoked salmon and Bach.' (Now, sixty years later, my answer would be the same.)

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • World

• The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Free

• The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • True

• After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Road
  • Safety

• If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you’re out of your mind. There are more kicks the fuck to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you’re crazy. It can fix you so you can’t play nothing or sing nothing.

  

  Eleanora Fagan
  • Good
  • Music
  • Mind

• There are common-sense things that your government could do that would give Americans more opportunities to succeed. Why don’t we do it? Because powerful special interests and the tendency to put ideology ahead of political progress have led to gridlock in Congress.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Why
  • Political
  • Powerful

• It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

  

  Aeschylus
  • Believe

• Religion is a species of mental disease. It has always had a pathological reaction on mankind.

  

  Benito Mussolini

• When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Die

• The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Christian
  • Religious
  • Principles

• I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Profound

• Every day be thankful for the nights that turn into mornings, friends that turn into family and dreams that turn into reality.

  

  Granger Smith
  • Country
  • Dream
  • Night

• A little child paddles a little boat, Drifting about, and picking white lotuses. He does not know how to hide his tracks, And duckweed's opened up along his path.

  

  Bai Juyi
  • Up
  • Path
  • Boat

• It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way, for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult.

  

  Aristotle
  • Way
  • Reason
  • Difficult

• Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Friendship
  • I Believe
  • Jail

• Nullam rem e nihilo gigni divinitus umquam.

  

  Lucretius