Frontinus And Quinaria Quotes

I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvement I see no further hope. ~ Frontinus

Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development. ~ Frontinus

Laying aside also all considerations of works and engines of war, the invention of which has long since reached its limit, and for the improvement of which I see no further hope in the applied arts, I shall recognize the following types of stratagems connected with siege operations ... ~ Frontinus

No greater care is required upon any works than upon such as are to withstand the action of water; for this reason, all parts of the work need to be done exactly according to the rules of the art which all workmen know, but few observe. ~ Frontinus

There are good people, who are in politics - in both parties - who hold this at arm's length, because if they acknowledge it and recognize it, then the moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable. ~ Al Gore

Holistic wisdom is the hallmark of the holistic mindset. ~ Pearl Zhu

In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building. ~ Michael Welch

There's so much to be grateful for, and praising God for giving you His Spirit is a great place to begin.
Even if you don't think you have much to be grateful for right now, know that you can always praise God for the Holy Spirit's presence in your life! ~ Stormie O'martian

Once you have made the World an end, and faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of worldly end he is pursuing. Provided that meets, pamphlets, policies, movements, causes, and crusades, matter more to him than prayers and sacraments and charity, he is ours--and the more 'religious' (on those terms) the more securely ours. I could show you a pretty careful down here[.] ~ C.S. Lewis

Life, she thought, was like that sometimes; for years, things were a certain way, and then in an instant, almost without conscious thought, they weren't that way any longer, as if all the hidden pressure on their having been the way they'd been had found release through a necessary valve. ~ Matthew Thomas

He looked over at me. "Indigo," he said. "Cyan". He glanced at the road in front of him, glanced at me. He reached over and ran his fingers down one of the darkest strands in the back, where I'd used a little purple. "Violet. ~ Jennifer Echols

If one really thinks about the body as such, there is no possible outline of the body as such. ~ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them. ~ Jill Lepore

I plan to lower corporate taxes to create an environment that encourages companies to invest more. ~ Lee Myung-bak