Didius Falco Quotes & Sayings

I think you have to take me for me. I am who I am. — Harry Styles

Impulse buying is not macho. Men rarely call the Home Shopping Network. — Rita Rudner

My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock. — Rodney Dangerfield

Some men are born lucky. Others are born Marcus Didius Falco. — Lindsey Davis

Materialism has come to the rescue of India in a certain sense by throwing open the doors of life to everyone, by destroying the exclusive privileges of caste, by opening up to discussion the inestimable treasures which were hidden away in the hands of a very few who have even lost the use of them. Half has been stolen and lost; and the other half which remains is in the hands of men who, like dogs in the manger, do not eat themselves and will not allow others to do so. — Swami Vivekananda

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep. — Francis Beaumont

It was not a wave but a smooth rolling swell that seemed to come up from the deeps, as if something vast down there had stirred itself. — John Banville

I think you have to [vote] and the reason you have to go vote is an important one, and that is because the day you vote is the day that you will feel the most ineffectual you will feel all year. — Lewis Black

We'll fight them. We took down my dad. We've taken down so many since then. We'll take down these jokesters too."
"I will never let anything happen to you," Nick growls into my hair. "I will die before you get hurt again. So help me God, Zara. I will die."
"Me too."
"What?"
"I will die before I let anyone hurt you or Issie or Dev or Gram or . . ." I stop and pull my head away from his chest so I can look up at him. "This list is getting kind of long and melodramatic, isn't it?"
He laughs. His hand moves slowly up my spine. He starts leaning down for a kiss. "Yeah. It is. — Carrie Jones

3. Learn the Will Skill. Many people believe that fitness and exercise are all about willpower - whether you have it or not. Will is important, but people forget that willpower is a skill with its own rules and tricks to practice. For example, recent research shows that if people can distract their attention for just a few minutes, they can suppress negative urges and make better decisions.8 Sharman W. used this idea to help her avoid cheating on her diet. She listed the ten reasons she wanted to lose weight and created the following rule: She could cheat on her diet, but only after reading her list and calling her sister. This extra step introduced a delay and brought in social support from her sister. Other strategies our Changers use include taking short walks, repeating poems they have memorized, and drinking a glass of water. The key is to be aware of the impulse and to focus on something different until the impulse goes away. — Kerry Patterson

I love brooding in a bucolic valley about your endless compassion. — Debasish Mridha

Beautiful words are ugly motives best friends. — Steve Fowler

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up. — Murray Kempton

Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense. — Christopher McDougall

Each time it happens we're tempted to infer the direct intervention of a Maker. — Carl Sagan