Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.Marcus Tullius Cicero
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
Carles Puigdemont -
I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
Yogi Berra -
Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
O. J. Simpson -
We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
Irene Joliot-Curie -
The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
Adam Clarke
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
Natasha Leggero -
I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
Abbey Clancy -
Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.
Orlando Bloom -
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
Mahatma Gandhi -
By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
Oren Peli -
What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
Kate Millett
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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
Mandy Moore -
If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
Ferran Adria -
I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
Bear Grylls -
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
Fidel Castro -
You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
Manuel Moroun -
The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
Gail Godwin
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Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.
Bjork -
It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.
Grace Dell Nichols -
If you want to play it safe, mix a lot of colors in the same tone and that is such an easy way to feel modern and feel a little confident.
Rachel Roy -
Our attitude towards suffering becomes very important because it can affect how we cope with suffering when it arises.
Dalai Lama -
Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on the impossibility of ever getting a state of complete and permanent satisfaction with what you have, and you become a pessimist. Dwell on the opportunity for endless growth and conquest which this same fact makes possible, and you become an optimist.
William DeWitt Hyde -
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
Marcus Tullius Cicero