Lucretius Quotes

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.

Lucretius

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: roman
  • Birth: 94 BC - 55 BC

Topics

SweetLandWindsHighStruggles

There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy.

Jess Walter

HeroTragedyCreateDesireRealOut

Yes, I've got inwardness and tenderness, but I also get angry and vituperative, and you have to honour that as well.

Tony Harrison

AngryYouYesGotWellGet

We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone, segregation because of geographical boundaries remains.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

SegregationBoundariesDaysGone

We used to look at each other and say, 'We play the same game with the same rules, the same bat, the same ball, the same field. What the hell does color have to do with it? You don't play with color. You play with talent.'

Monte Irvin

TalentGameColorHellYouLook

I'm a lifetime member of the NRA.

Miranda Lambert

LifetimeMemberNRA

I love to talk about cooking and recipes, but I love as much talking about how food and cooking can change the world.

Jose Andres

LoveChangeFoodCookingWorldTalk

I think all priests should be married.

Denis Leary

ThinkMarriedI ThinkShouldPriests

The first job I had was a Pampers commercial. And I used to go with my father whenever he would do a performance. I remember clinging to his legs, saying, 'Please. Take me with you.'

Christian Slater

FatherJobMePerformanceSayingGo

Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic.

Brian Greene

SciencePredictionsQuantumBroke

In the documentary 'Facing Ali,' nearly half the fighters involved required subtitles despite speaking English, their speech slurred by the physical toll of their ring lives. This was their reward for testing their furthermost physical and mental boundaries.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

SpeechRewardRingBoundariesMental

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

Publilius Syrus

GoodLearnOthersCautionThing

I allowed myself to think if I could be doing anything in the world, what would I be doing? And what came to mind is I'd be traveling a little bit, I'd be going to classes and I'd be going back to school.

Ricky Williams

MyselfSchoolMindWorldThinkBack

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