Maniples Quotes & Sayings

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare. — Maya Angelou

He offered me a ride up from the abyss and I took it. But a ride with the devil is never free. And accepting that ride can only lead to hell. — S.D. Skye

To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott

He just sits there. I want to be like that. Able to just sit all quiet and pull life toward me, one forehead at a time. His name is supposedly Lyle. — David Foster Wallace

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong. — Charles Handy

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do. — Ernest Hemingway,

I love heels! I especially like heels by Nicholas Kirkwood, Jimmy Choo and Moschino. — Joanne Froggatt

If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people. — Abu Bakr

The closer the people of all races get to Christ and His cross, the closer they will get to one another. — Billy Graham

It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way? — John Money

I don't really feel comfortable anywhere except when I'm working alone at home. It's exhausting to be out around people. — Kim Gordon

The order of battle used by the Roman army is very difficult to break through, since it allows every man to fight both individually and collectively; the effect is to offer a formation that can present a front in any direction, since the maniples that are nearest to the point where danger threatens wheels in order to meet it. — Polybius

Even gelato, which used to be divine all over Italy, is not dependably good anymore. — Frances Mayes

Fundamental systemic crises are often associated with the decline of the dominant imperial power and its increasing inability to sustain the system over which it had previously presided. The profound instability of the interwar period owed much to Britain's inability to maintain its role. — Martin Jacques