Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Up
  • Work
  • Different

• Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Good
  • Work
  • Influence

• I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Attention
  • Student
  • Paid

• To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Understanding
  • End

• Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • World
  • Important
  • Me

• For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Day

• Leeks are normally given the job of flavouring other things, such as stocks and soups, but I find their creaminess and sweet, oniony flavour very satisfying.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Job
  • Sweet
  • Find

• The more criticism I get, the more it gives me a stronger urge to win. So I try harder.

  

  Rain
  • Win
  • Criticism
  • Stronger

• Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Play
  • Understand
  • Weapons

• You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Exercise

• A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Ethical
  • Blindness

• I've learned to wait 'til an idea is worth making. That's not really a lesson I've learned; I sort of always did it that way. But there's no reason or need to make videos prior to when you make a show, because then you need material for it.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Wait

• We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • People
  • Know
  • Better

• Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Faith
  • Knowledge

• Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won't do it unless my coaches tell me I've just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Hate

• She no longer believes very strongly in belief... Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. As happens when one writes: believing whatever has to be believed in order to get the job done.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Done
  • May
  • She

• Learning proceeds until death and only then does it stop. ... Its purpose cannot be given up for even a moment. To pursue it is to be human, to give it up to be a beast.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Up
  • Death
  • Stop

• It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money

• Some people said, “we don't want to risk astronauts lives anymore, we need to stop doing this”. The astronauts don't feel that wayWe fly for our country, we fly for humanity, we fly for exploration, we fly for a variety of reasons, and we don't stop flying because we have accidents.

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Humanity
  • Risk
  • Accidents

• The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.

  

  Joel Silver
  • Business
  • Movie

• My dissertation was on the idea of feminine-themed women's magazines, so like how the ideal woman is put across by women's magazines.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Ideas
  • Feminine
  • Magazines

• These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity.”

  

  Alexander H. Stephens
  • Mankind
  • Pictures
  • Ceremonies

• It's not normal to go into a house and see a pond in the middle of the living room full of baby sharks. It's not normal to go to someone's garage and see a private plane.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • House
  • Baby

• The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero