Titus Livius Famous Quotes
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Better late than never.
There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
"Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence."
"I approach these questions unwillingly, as they are sore subjects, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them."
"In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest."
Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
"The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze."
Greater is our terror of the unknown.
Titus Livius Quotations
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
William Hazlitt
"The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them into the service of man ... To make contributions of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality."
Sir Eric Ashby
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles De Gaulle
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
Jan Glidewell
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
"Sometimes, big trees grow out of acorns. I think I heard that from a squirrel."
Jerry Coleman
"The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered."
Felix Adler
I believe in livin' a life less ordinary... Yet extraordinary.
Unknown
The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
Ralph Nader
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
Titus Maccius Plautus