English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Quintilian Quotes

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

Quintilian

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures. Robert Stack
John W. Gardner quote: "If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be..."
If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are. John W. Gardner
Well," she said, "if I were the enemy commander, and our assault had failed three times, and I wanted to make a fourth, I don't think I'd attack with fewer men. But that's just me."Shut up, Loiosh."I beg your pardon?"Never mind. Private joke. Steven Brust
...Only the big food manufacturers have the wherewithal to secure FDA-approved health claims for their products and then trumpet them to the world. Generally, it is the products of modern food science that make the boldest health claims, and these are often founded on incomplete and often bad science. Michael Pollan
Big Sean quote: "People who tend to listen to my music have come back and said,..."
People who tend to listen to my music have come back and said, 'Yo, this is my anthem. This is what I live by.' Big Sean
Jacques Yves Cousteau quote: "We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one."
We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one. Jacques Yves Cousteau
A guy came to the shop every day. A lot of guys put the foam like stuff that forms to you, kinda like the Indy car guys run. He fitted it up and it felt real good, so we're going to try to run it. Sterling Marlin
William Tecumseh Sherman quote: "If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied,..."
If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir. William Tecumseh Sherman
I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say 'Holden Caulfield' on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say 'Fuck you.' I'm positive, in fact. J. D. Salinger
Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and even betters Tokyo. Paul Oakenfold
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right. Marilyn Monroe
as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the sea birds raced and ran upon the beaches. Then that same impulse to flight seized upon them too. Crying, whistling, calling, they skimmed the placid sea and left the shore. Make haste, make speed, hurry and begone; yet where, and to what purpose? The restless urge of autumn, unsatisfying, sad, had put a spell upon them and they must flock, and wheel, and cry; they must spill... Daphne du Maurier
Chris Robinson quote: "It's funny, after a while, you get tired of having to fight..."
It's funny, after a while, you get tired of having to fight someone because they don't like the way you look. Chris Robinson
Andrea Dworkin quote: "How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person,..."
How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se? Andrea Dworkin
Tom Bodett quote: "In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In..."
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson. Tom Bodett