Justinian 1 Quotes

#1. Don't you ever forget that, hummingbird. You can go anywhere you want to go, be anything you want to be. Play because you love it and for no other reason. The day you stop loving it is the day it becomes a job. Making music should never be a job.

Tara Sivec

#2. The crimes of the moonlight melonmounter followed him as crimes will.

Cormac McCarthy

#3. A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#4. There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity,

Justinian I

#5. Browning: 'Justinian's Pandects only make precise / What simply sparkled in men's eyes before'.

Michael Oakeshott

#6. Every last one of us can do better than give up.

Cheryl Strayed

#7. The United States is holding hundreds of suspected terrorists in prisons at Guantanamo and elsewhere. Many are locked up indefinitely. They have not been tried or even charged with any crime.

Stephen Kinzer

#8. If I went to a regular job, if I was a secretary or something, I'd want to look good. I'd dress up for that part.

Alana Blanchard

#9. Frugality is the mother of all virtues.

Justinian I

#10. They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business.

Herman Melville

#11. Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.

Justinian I

#12. In the reign of the Greek Emperor Justinian , and again in the reign of Phocas , the Bishop of Rome obtained some dominion over the Greek Churches, but of no long continuance. His standing dominion was only over the nations of the Western Empire, represented by Daniel's fourth Beast.

Isaac Newton

#13. Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race ... Mohammed ...

John William Draper

#14. ...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history.

Procopius Of Caesarea

#15. I used to think you could help people only with money. Actually, you can't really help anyone, but you can give them pleasure.

Irmgard Keun

#16. Mounting anything on a plaque instantly transforms it from trash into an award. For example, a dry disposable pen goes from junk clutter to the first annual writer's award for dry humor.

Jarod Kintz

#17. Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.

Derek Bok

#18. One. Two. Three. Blink.

Jessica Brody

#19. I leave my heart on the court every night. I earn my keep.

Eli Manning

#20. Marriage or matrimony is the union of male and female, involving shared life together.

Justinian I

#21. Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian I

#22. The safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian I

#23. On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian. Charity will be the whole syllabus.

Robert Bellarmine

#24. I'm not a fan of reality shows, but I am a fan of people who use their brains and skills and hard work to outsmart people, not to steal someone's man or get drunk on TV.

Sandra Bullock

#25. Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.

Simone De Beauvoir

#26. Friend let this be enough. If thou wouldst go on reading. Go thyself and become the writing and the meaning

Angelus Silesius

#27. If anyone assert the fabulous pre-existence of souls and shall submit to the monstrous doctrine that follows from it, let him be anathema [excommunicated]

Justinian I

#28. True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The people of the world want change. They will not long tolerate those who are on the wrong side of history.

Barack Obama

#29. The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the air, flowing water, the sea and the seashore were common to all.

Charles Clover

#30. If anything is due to a corporation, it is not due to the individual members thereof, nor do the members individually owe what the corporation owes.

Justinian I

#31. Justice is the constant and eternal purpose that renders to each his due.

Justinian I