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

• Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • School
  • Kids
  • You

• How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Need
  • Act
  • Constitution

• 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

• I really liked Deadheads and the whole Dead concert scene: the tailgating, the tie-dye uniforms, the camaraderie - it was like NASCAR for potheads.

  

  Ann Coulter

• 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 don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Black History Month

• When you get called the n-word, as a black person you can do anything. It's like getting a gold star in Super Mario Brothers and junk. I hear the music when I hear the n-word. I get right into it; I get really into it. You can do anything. You could be in a fancy restaurant - just start throwing poop at the walls. People be like, 'What are you doing?' 'Someone called him the n-word.

  

  Donald Glover
  • People
  • Music
  • Black

• It is one of those problems of human nature, which may be noted down, but not solved; - although Ralph felt no remorse at that moment for his conduct towards the innocent, true-hearted girl; although his libertine clients had done precisely what he had expected, precisely what he most wished, and precisely what would tend most to his advantage, still he hated them for doing it, from the very bottom of his soul.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Soul
  • Problem
  • Innocent

• Nullam rem e nihilo gigni divinitus umquam.

  

  Lucretius