Quotes About Scipio Africanus

#1. Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that.

Jason Mraz

#2. Go, therefore, to meet the foe with two objects before you, either victory or death. For men animated by such a spirit must always overcome their adversaries, since they go into battle ready to throw away their lives.

Scipio Africanus

#3. It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.

Scipio Africanus

#4. I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

Scipio Africanus

#5. Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design.

Henry Rollins

#6. The thought of abandoning his friend to save himself was never an option. He collapsed, pushing even closer to Raimie. Pressing his lips against his friend's ear, he whispered, "As good a day to die as any." He would defend them until his end.

Wendy Owens

#7. You've always made the mistake of being yourself.

Eugene Ionesco

#8. To protect the innocent, to avoid being one of Burke's good men who do nothing, you have to accept permanent scars that cincture the heart and traumas of the mind that occasionally reopen to weep again.

Dean Koontz

#9. Hey guys, watch this.

Alexander St. Pierre

#10. When we decide to see things one way we are often incapable of seeing them any other way.

Sara Douglass

#11. Meg's eyes were too bright. I wish human beings couldn't have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt.

Madeleine L'Engle

#12. International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Rebecca West

#13. As I get older, I use less jewelry - necklace or earrings each morning, not both; my clothes are getting more basic - fewer colours and simpler cuts; and my make-up is stripped back to basics.

Tracy Chevalier

#14. If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

Thomas Paine

#15. And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

Henry Miller

#16. Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace.

Scipio Africanus

#17. Encourage your child to think for himself, disagree, and talk about his feelings while accepting your authority.

Henry Cloud

#18. Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, form or narrative content - something we had not perceived before ... and perhaps reveal something to you about yourself.

Gloria Vanderbilt