The Georgics Quotes & Sayings

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be ... including our perception. Of it — Anais Nin

For all the claims of his detractors that Stewart is the epitome of East Coast elitism, there is more self-deprecating New Jersey grit here than arrogant Manhattan elan. — Anonymous

Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are. — Charles Bukowski

When I went off to college, I was expecting to be a concert musician. In music school I heard all of these kids who were just unbelievable. And I understand that you can be very, very good, but there's something that separates very, very good from great, and I knew that I wasn't great. — Condoleezza Rice

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument. — Isaac Watts

I like working with writer-directors because you can solve problems right there. — Nick Nolte

Since a cold shower wasn't handy, I decided to walk my squishy off. - Nixie — Mary Hughes

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Lucky is he who has been able to understand the causes of things Virgil, Georgics, Book 2 — Robert Galbraith

The arrival of thousands of Muslim infiltrators to Israeli territory is a clear threat to the state's Jewish identity. The refugees' place is not among us, and the initiative to transfer them to Australia is the right and just solution. — Danny Danon

You know, most men would get discouraged by now. Fortunately for you, I am not most men! — Pepe

It has been said that nothing dispels a lie faster than the truth; nothing exposes the counterfeit faster than the genuine. — R.C. Sproul

I love my life, because I've seen my purpose — Nick Vujicic

About Justice departing from the shepherds: Justice illustrates a passage from Virgil's Georgics, in which he describes how Astraea, the goddess of Justice, who used to live among mortals during the Golden Age, took refuge among country people, as times degenerated, and at length fled even from them. Rosa shows the cloud-borne goddess departing from a tumbledown farmstead as she hands her sword and scales to a bemused group of peasants, one of whom awkwardly pulls of his hat in respect. — Jonathan Scott

In the Fourth Eclogue also Vergil has still the enthusiasm of youth. Few poems are so rich in magnificent lines or in stirring hopes ... His hope is for a golden age in which there shall be no toil, no commerce, no sorrow, yet he still wants a high development of the intellectual life, the speculations of science, the practical application of knowledge. — John Erskine