Edward Gibbon Quotes
Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Quotes to Explore
-
I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
-
I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
-
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
-
Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
-
Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
-
I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
-
I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
-
I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
-
I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
-
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
-
There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
-
My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
-
I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.
-
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
-
There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
-
It takes people a while to trust you.
-
I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
-
I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
-
I love when I go to conventions, and often it'll be the younger kids who will refer to us by our character names - how can you not find that absolutely charming? I remember when I used to go to conventions when I was a kid when I would stand in long lines to get people's autograph.
-
Almost all women have hearts full of pity.
-
I don't have a lot of experiences like this where every time I thought I had a good idea it was totally wrong. I had to give in completely and just try to make the movie Alejandro AmenĂ¡bar was trying to make.
-
I am always locked in my design studio.
-
My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.
-
Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.