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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.


Livy

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KING CHARLES I In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.
TITUS LIVY In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.
LIVY In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
LIVY In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.
TITUS LIVY In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
TITUS LIVIUS In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.
TITUS LIVY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
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WILLIAM PENN Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.
GEORGE ILES 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON How to get over the river was the bother. At last, after thinking a heap about it, I came to the con...
WILD BILL HICKOK Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willing...
J.G. BALLARD Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON You know what your problem is, Justina? You're in desperate need of a good shag. "Not that I'm offer...
JEANIENE FROST Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought
ELIZABETH BOWEN Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strengt...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL All day long you sit and sew,
Stitch life down for fear it grow,

Stitch life down fo...
EDITH SITWELL Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different tim...
MARGARET ATWOOD She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave -
The water below is as dark as the grave,
...
MARGARET ATWOOD And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave. -King Richard II....
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Also, it was a bit hopeless," he said. "A bit defeatist."
"If by defeatist you mean honest, the...
JOHN GREEN Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
STEVE WOZNIAK Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv...
ABIGAIL GEORGE We hope it's a low intensity virus. We are continuing measures to isolate the affected area.
AGRICULTURE MINISTER GHEORGHE FLUTUR Everything has it's own time and place, Transformation becomes effortless when we go with the flow.
SHELLI THOMPSON Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are...
T. S. ELIOT It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that ga...
SUZANNE COLLINS Every revolution begins with one voice crying in the wilderness.
JEFFREY FRY Water flows because it's willing.
MARTY RUBIN Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead.
JIM GENOVESE Don't resist life, flow with it.
JIM GENOVESE Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm.
JIM GENOVESE The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.
MARGARET MITCHELL I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and s...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The first step is an intuition and it comes with a burst, then difficulties arise - this thing gives...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON He muttered something foul and then climbed the stairs, rapping twice on Timmie’s door.
“Ri...
JEANIENE FROST We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY That was how the little prince tamed the fox. And when the time was near:
"Ah!" the fox said. "...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY The little prince went back to look at the roses again.
"You're not at all like my rose. You'r...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Hoşça kal,“ dedi tilki. "İşte sana bir sır, çok basit bir şey: İnsan yalnız yüreğiyle d...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY For me you're only a little boy just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need o...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY It's all a great mystery. For you, who love the little prince, too. As for me, nothing in the univer...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY What is essential is invisible to the eye
SAINT-EXUPERY, ANTOINE DE If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom
SAINT-EXUPERY, ANTOINE DE No one is ever satisfied where he is
SAINT-EXUPERY, ANTOINE DE ,Grown-ups love figures. When you describe a new friend to them, they never ask you about the import...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed
SAINT-EXUPERY, ANTOINE DE That is the most difficult thing of all. It is far more difficult to judge oneself than to judge oth...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye." Ant...
ANTOIN DE ST EXUPERY Only the children know what they are looking for.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Grown-ups love figures. When you tell them that you have made a new friend, they never ask you any q...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound;...
DOROTHY PARKER Grown ups never understood anything by themselves. And it is rather tedious to have to explain thing...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
ABIGAIL ADAMS In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... The old ways are the safest and surest ways.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The old ways are the safest and surest ways
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MARGARET MITCHELL There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave.
PROVERB There are declarations, there are tiny measures, but that's been the case for the last 30 years. You...
FADELA AMARA Stop running from me and listen. I do want you. I want you even knowing if I marry you, I’ve got a...
LISA KLEYPAS When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE I like to not have to be 'on' for anybody.
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE The Legend of Zorro,
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis, Louis, Louis...Stil whining, Louis! Are you quite finished? I've had to listen to that for ce...
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis: I'm flesh and blood, but not human. I haven't been human for two hundred years.
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will ...
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.
SHARON SALZBERG We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.
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LAILAH GIFTY AKITA She whispered, "Even with a broken hand, you are the knight I'd most want and trust to rescue me-and...
MELANIE DICKERSON Regular donors are the safest donors and we need to foster this awareness in the community.
IANTHE EXALL An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
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BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO We hope the relevant parties can exercise restraint and not take measures that will escalate the sit...
CUI TIANKAI This was the boldest test flight anyone ever did.
MICHAEL GRIFFIN The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
THOMAS CARLYLE They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excite...
MARGARET MITCHELL Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a h...
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EMILY GIFFIN O full and splendid Moon, whom I
Have, from this desk, seen climb the sky
So many a midnig...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.
DAVID HASSELHOFF God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
BJ NELSON

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LIVY The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest bree...
LIVY Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
LIVY Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
LIVY In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
LIVY Persevere in virtue and diligence.
LIVY Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
LIVY Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
LIVY History is the best medicine for a sick mind, for in history you have a record of the infinite varie...
LIVY No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
LIVY We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
LIVY In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.
LIVY It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
LIVY Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
LIVY It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous...
LIVY A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray i...
LIVY Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
LIVY He will have true glory who despises it.
LIVY Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
LIVY There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
LIVY This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of e...
LIVY Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magni...
LIVY All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
LIVY We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.
LIVY The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of ...
LIVY Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
LIVY Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
LIVY Now Brutus had deliberately assumed a mask to hide his true character.  When he learned of the murd...
LIVY Envy, like fire, soars upward. [Lat., Invidiam, tamquam ignem, summa petere.]
TITUS LIVY Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. [Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad sua...
TITUS LIVY In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.
TITUS LIVY We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
TITUS LIVY Adversity reminds men of religion. [Lat., Adverse res admonent religionum.]
TITUS LIVY Men's plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not circumstances by the plans. [Lat., Cons...
TITUS LIVY In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.
TITUS LIVY Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself. [Lat., Ipsa se fraus, etiams...
TITUS LIVY Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread. [Lat., Graviora quae pat...
TITUS LIVY Necessity is the last and strongest weapon. [Lat., Necessitas ultimum et maximum telum est.]
TITUS LIVY It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult an...
TITUS LIVY No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. [Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire ...
TITUS LIVY A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts. [Lat., Parvis mobilis rebus animus muliebris.]
TITUS LIVY Experience is the teacher of fools. [Lat., Stultorum eventus magister est.]
TITUS LIVY It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
TITUS LIVY The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty. [Lat., Pessimus quidem pudor vel...
TITUS LIVY As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what ...
TITUS LIVY In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.
TITUS LIVY Rashness is not fortunate
TITUS LIVY The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something th...
TITUS LIVY Superstition brings the gods into even the smallest matters
TITUS LIVY Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
TITUS LIVY Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue
TITUS LIVY It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
TITUS LIVY Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves
TITUS LIVY Adversity makes men remember God
TITUS LIVY Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished
TITUS LIVY Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
TITUS LIVY Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
TITUS LIVY